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Birmingham Church Bombing Trial

The trial of former Ku Klux Klansman Thomas Blanton Jr. is over. The man was convicted of bombing the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963. NPR's Debbie Elliott reports on the trial and sentencing in this highly publicized case.

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