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Bobby Frank Cherry was born on 20 June, 1930 in Clanton, Alabama, U.S., is an American mass murderer. Discover Bobby Frank Cherry's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?

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Occupation Truck driver, welder, business owner
Age 74 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 20 June 1930
Birthday 20 June
Birthplace Clanton, Alabama, U.S.
Date of death 18 November, 2004
Died Place Kilby Correctional Facility, Mt. Meigs, Alabama, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1930

Bobby Frank Cherry (June 20, 1930 – November 18, 2004) was an American white supremacist, terrorist, and Klansman who was convicted of murder in 2002 for his role in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963.

The bombing killed four young African-American girls (Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins, and Denise McNair) and injured more than 20 other people.

Bobby Frank Cherry was born on June 20, 1930, in Mineral Springs, a neighborhood of Clanton, Alabama.

He was born on the same day as Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr.., but 8 years earlier.

He joined the United States Marine Corps as a youth, where he gained expertise in demolitions and working with explosives.

After his time with the Marines, Cherry worked a series of low-paying jobs, including a long stint as a truck driver.

Cherry had a wife, Virginia, at the time of the bombing.

He and Virginia Cherry had seven children together.

Their marriage was tumultuous and, at times, violent.

Bobby Cherry expected deference from his wife and children, using beatings to enforce his authority.

1957

During his trial, the prosecution presented evidence that Cherry, a white man, had assaulted black minister Fred Shuttlesworth in 1957 using a set of brass knuckles.

The minister had been working to integrate a school in Birmingham, Alabama.

The prosecution also discussed an incident in which Cherry had allegedly pistol-whipped a black man in a restaurant after the man insulted Cherry.

On the morning of the bombing, Cherry was with his son Tom at the Modern Sign Company a few blocks away from the church.

The two were silkscreening Confederate rebel flags.

Tom Cherry later said that he could clearly hear the sound of an explosion happening nearby and knew that something bad had happened.

Cherry was originally supposed to be tried at the same time as (though not jointly with) fellow defendant Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr.. Cherry was able to successfully delay his trial by claiming that vascular dementia had impaired his mind and that his health would prevent him from assisting in his own defense.

Blanton was convicted and Cherry was eventually found mentally competent to stand trial.

At his trial, he denied his involvement in the bombing as well as his affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan, but he was ultimately found guilty.

Cherry's son, Thomas Frank Cherry, testified that Bobby Cherry was a member of the United Klans of America, a Ku Klux Klan group, and relatives and friends testified that he "bragged" about having played a role in the bombing.

Ex-wife Willadean Brogdon testified, "He said he lit the fuse."

1968

Virginia Cherry died of cancer in 1968.

After her death, Bobby Cherry placed the children in the Gateway Mercy Home Orphanage and with relatives.

He eventually remarried four times, including to third wife Willadean Brogdon; Brogdon would later testify at Cherry's trial that he had bragged about his role in the church bombing.

1970

Cherry left Birmingham in the early 1970s and moved to the suburbs of Dallas, Texas.

He found work as a welder and owned a carpet cleaning business in Grand Prairie.

1982

Michael Wayne Goings, a house painter who worked with Cherry in Dallas in 1982, said he also heard him boast about the crime, even saying "You know, I bombed that church."

A third man, Mitchell Burns, had been an associate of Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr.. and Bobby Cherry at the time of the bombing and was recruited by Federal Bureau of Investigation investigators to act as an informant.

Burns testified on the stand at Cherry's trial that Burns' involvement with the Ku Klux Klan was more socially than politically based, something that was plausible during the era of the crime, and that the agents approached him and asked for his help.

He initially declined but was shown postmortem photos of the young girls killed by the bomb.

Deeply disturbed by what he had seen, he vomited.

He agreed to work with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Burns testified that he was primarily a friend of Blanton, but that Blanton was a good friend of Cherry, so Cherry would sometimes join them when they went out.

Burns' assistance came in the form of going to numerous honky tonks with the two men with a very large reel-to-reel tape recorder in the car trunk recording the group's conversations.

Burns took thorough notes after these meetings, and additionally when the three met and spoke outside of his car.

The tapes were collected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation during its immediate investigation.

1988

In 1988, Cherry suffered a heart attack and moved again, this time to small-town Henderson County, Texas with fifth wife Myrtle.

1997

They were subsequently misplaced or archived and were rediscovered in 1997; the rediscovery of the tapes ultimately led to the prosecution of Blanton and Cherry.

The recordings primarily contained racist sentiment.

2016

Most significantly, one recording from the car raised the subject of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.