Herman Frank Cash was suspected to have been a fourth conspirator in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing

16th Street Baptist Church bombing

The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed on Sunday, September 15, 1963. The explosion at the African-American church, which killed four girls, marked a turning point in the U.S...

 of 1963.

Life

At the time of the bombing, Cash was married to Myrtle Cash and had two children, both of whom were in their twenties. He was a truck driver for Dixie-Ohio Express Company. Cash was a member of United Klans of America

United Klans of America

United Klans of America Inc. was one of the largest Ku Klux Klan organizations in the United States. Led by Robert Shelton, the UKA peaked in popularity in the late 1960s and 1970s, and was the most violent Klan organization of its time. Its headquarters were the Anglo-Saxon Club outside...

, a Ku Klux Klan

Ku Klux Klan

Ku Klux Klan, often abbreviated KKK and informally known as the Klan, is the name of three distinct past and present far-right organizations in the United States, which have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration, historically...

 organization.

Bombing role

Although officially named by the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Bureau of Investigation

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 as a suspect as early as 1965, Cash was never formally charged with any crime. He maintained his innocence and passed a polygraph

Polygraph

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 test given by the FBI. Acquaintances claimed that Cash was too nervous to be capable of committing a crime of the magnitude of the bombing.

Cash died in 1994 in Pinson

Pinson, Alabama

Pinson is a city in Birmingham, Alabama, United States northwest from Center Point. At the 2000 census, the population was 5,033.-Geography:This city is located at .According to the U.S...

, Alabama

Alabama

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.

See also

• Thomas Edwin Blanton, Jr.
  Thomas Edwin Blanton, Jr.
  Thomas Edwin Blanton, Jr. was convicted in 2001 of murder for his role as conspirator in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963. The bombing killed four young African-American girls . Blanton was twenty-five years old at the time of the bombing.He is housed at St...
  
  
• Bobby Frank Cherry
  Bobby Frank Cherry
  Bobby Frank Cherry was an American white supremacist and Klansman who was convicted of murder in 2002 for his role in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963...
  
  
• Robert Edward Chambliss
  Robert Edward Chambliss
  Robert Edward Chambliss , also known as Dynamite Bob, was convicted in 1977 of murder for his role as conspirator in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963...
  
  
• African-American history
• African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968)
• Birmingham campaign
  Birmingham campaign
  The Birmingham campaign was a strategic movement organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to bring attention to the unequal treatment that black Americans endured in Birmingham, Alabama...
  
  
• Mass racial violence in the United States
  Mass racial violence in the United States
  Mass racial violence, also called race riots can include such disparate events as:* attacks on Irish Catholics, the Chinese and other immigrants in the 19th century....