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The guilty verdict arrived a generation late. Accounts of that notorious day in 1963 had faded in the minds of the aging rescue workers and parishioners. Witnesses had died as the years stretched to decades. Outside of Birmingham, Ala., the event seemed distilled to a paragraph in a history book. Four little girls murdered in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham.