Baxley, William J., 1941-
Biography:
Attorney General of Alabama (1971-1979) and lieutenant governor (1983-1987). Born in Dothan, Alabama, on June 27, 1941. Elected Attorney General in 1970. He successfully prosecuted Ku Klux Klansman Robert Chambliss for his part in the 1963 bombing of Birmingham's Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.
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Archival Collections and Reference Resources
- Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing Collection (Birmingham Public Library Archives)
- Baxley : bureaucratic mess slowed bomb probe (Clippings (information artifacts))
- Baxley declares four men are still sought in church bombing (Clippings (information artifacts))
- Baxley expects more revelations, indictments in bombing probe (Clippings (information artifacts))
- Baxley : Justice Dept. slowed bombing probe (Clippings (information artifacts))
- Baxley men arrive to probe bombing (Clippings (information artifacts))
- Baxley office, city working together on bombing probe (Clippings (information artifacts))
- Baxley reopens probe of '63 church bombing (Clippings (information artifacts))
- Baxley reopens probe of Birmingham bombing (Clippings (information artifacts))
- Baxley : Rowe data not sole probe basis (Clippings (information artifacts))
- Baxley will handle church bomb case (Clippings (information artifacts))
- FBI took 4 years to release files (Clippings (information artifacts))
- Trial to start for church bombing; one of most important in city (Clippings (information artifacts))