Johnny Robinson and Virgil Ware were killed in the aftermath of the Birmingham church bombing in 1963.
Donnell Jackson, 13, and Shirley Floyd hold up a portrait of Virgil Ware as members of Ware's family stand behind it at a memorial ceremony for Ware in Birmingham, Ala., in 2004.Johnny Robinson and Virgil Ware.
“For so long, the four little girls got all the recognition, and they forgot about the two little boys,” James Ware, Virgil’s older brother, toldAside from the four girls, Robinson, 16, and Ware, 13, were the only two people to die in the aftermath of the attack that day. Robinson was with his friends when a group of white people drove by waving Confederate flags, throwing garbage and hurling racist slurs at the Black group,.
Gillis, now retired from the FBI, told NBC News via email that he was tasked with delivering a letter to the Robinson family in 2010 with more information about Robinson’s case and what actually happened that day. Consumed by grief, the Robinsons didn’t talk much about the teen’s death, especially after local and federal grand juries decided not to prosecute Jack Parker, the officer who killed him, NPR reported. Parker died in 1977.
Shirley Peoples carries a portrait of Johnnie Robinson at a wreath laying ceremony in memory of Robinson at New Grace Hill Cemetery in Birmingham, Ala., in 2007.According to Time, one of the white boys, Michael Farley, handed a revolver to his friend Larry Sims and told him to fire a shot to “scare” the Black boys. Sims, who told Time in 2003 that he thought he was shooting at the ground, closed his eyes and fired. He shot Ware in the chest and the face.
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