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Bomber's Son Still Searching for Dad's Love

By AAN Staff
june 25, 2002  12:49 pm
Bomber's Son Still Searching for Dad's Love
Last month, 39 years after four little girls died in the bombing of an all-black church in Birmingham, Ala., Bobby Frank Cherry was convicted of the crime. One of four Ku Klux Klansmen who planted the bomb at the height of the civil rights movement, Cherry now stands as one of this country's most notorious racist killers. But to his 49-year-old son, Tom Cherry, he's just "Dad." And despite Bobby Frank Cherry's hateful, abusive ways -- both as a Klansman and as a father -- his son has never given up trying to forge some sort of bond with him. "Echoes of Hate" by Dallas Observer Staff Writer Carlton Stowers takes a look at this bizarre love-hate relationship.
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