Eighty seconds. That’s how long it took last week for the Alabama Board of Pardons and Parole to discuss and deny the possible parole of Thomas Blanton Jr., the last surviving member of a group of Ku Klux Klansmen responsible for a 1963 Birmingham, Ala. church bombing that killed four teenage black girls.
Eighty years. That’s the mark retired AP reporter Jim Purks will reach later this month . In the wake of the parole hearing, Montgomery Advertiser columnist Alvin Benn touched base with Purks to revisit the latter’s Sept.
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