60 years after 4 little girls were killed in a KKK attack on the 16th Street Baptist Church, memories of the lives that were taken live on | CNN US

CNN US | 60 years after 4 little girls were killed in a KKK attack on the 16th Street Baptist Church, memories of the lives that were taken live on

A civil defense worker and firemen walk through debris from an explosion at the 16th Street Baptist Church, which killed and injured several people, in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sept. 15, 1963. The open doorway at right is where at least four people are believed to have died.

CNN — On the morning of September 15, 1963, Rev. John H. Cross Jr. and members of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, were preparing to start the Youth Day worship service when a bomb went off.

“I will never forget that horrific noise,” said Barbara Cross, the reverend’s eldest daughter. “I remember everything got real dark and you could hear kids screaming.”. –read more–