Grover Cleveland Hall, Jr. (February 10, 1915 – September 24, 1971) was educated in the Montgomery public schools and worked seven years in "Advertiser" reporting and writing positions before World War II military service. In the United States Army Air Corps from 1942 to 1945, he contributed some articles to the "Advertiser" and "Alabama Journal" from England. He was a "Montgomery Advertiser" editor after the war, and editor-in-chief from 1956 to 1971. Or from 1948 until fired in 1966. He also authored the book "1000 Destroyed" about the 4th Fighter Group of the US Army Air Corps. Hall allied with George C. Wallace in 1958 and was preparing to be director of publications for the Wallace organization when he died in 1971. After the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing of 1963, Hall wrote that Wallace had no need to apologize for the violence he had encouraged by his call for resistance to court-ordered desegregation. Instead, he wrote, it was President John Kennedy who "inflamed the Negroes during the recent trouble by rehearsing their historic grievances. He may also have inflamed him who finally planted the dynamite at the church."