Doug Jones in Court

U.S. Attorney Doug Jones delivers his closing argument in the 2002 trial of Bobby Frank Cherry, one of the culprits in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham in 1963. Jones successfully prosecuted Cherry and co-conspirator Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr. for the bombing and the resultant deaths of four young girls.

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