Former KKK member convicted in deadly bombing up for parole
By JAY REEVES Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr. was a young Ku Klux Klansman with a reputation for hating blacks in 1963, when a bomb ripped a hole in the side…
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1 KLANSMAN SURVIVES ALA CHURCH BOMBING CASES
By JAY REEVES FILE — In this May 1, 2001 file photo, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Deputies lead Thomas Blanton Jr., out of the courtroom in handcuffs after a jury convicted…