;1958: On 28 April 1958, Birmingham, Alabama, 54 sticks of dynamite were placed outside Temple Beth-El in a bombing attempt. According to police reports, the burning fuses were doused by heavy rainfall, preventing the dynamite from exploding.Temple, C. and Hansen, J.: "Ministers' homes, churches among bomb targets" , "The Birmingham News", 16 July 2000. Although the crime was never solved, police considered Bobby Frank Cherry, later convicted of bombing the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, to be a suspect.Wiener, J "Southern Explosure", "The Nation", 11 June 2001.
