An article named ¡°Alabama Faces Old Wound in One Last Trial¡± created by Rick Bragg in New York Times appears in my hand. When reading it, I feel great bitterness and astringencies that exceeds my expectation; however, I do enjoy this feeling of reading, touching the truth inside and tracking the thought of the author in his logical way. It is a typical example of most of Bragg¡¯s articles. Bragg is concerned about people's deaths, and he leads the readers "experience" the deaths along with his logic of the article, in order to obtain some reasons or lessons from those deaths.
             Rick Bragg talks about the last trial of the bombing case of the 16th Baptist Church in this article, focusing on the contentious discussion of the last suspect¡¯s crime. His words and expression reminds us of a racial incident that happened on Sep.15, 1963, which shocked the entire nation and galvanized the movement for civil rights. Bragg wrote the article on May 12, 2002, the Sunday before the last trial of the very willful murder case; however, it is concerning a crime in which the trials lasted almost 40 years. The article starts mentioning the last trial of Bobby Frank Cherry in this lawsuit. Thus, just like a flashback, Bragg traces the tragic story from the very beginning to the present situation. On a common Sunday in 1963, a bomb made from dynamite exploded in the late morning throughout the basement of a church in Birmingham, in which four girls lost their precious lives. According to the investigation of the F.B.I., the Ku Klux Klan, which was extremely active in racial violence in Alabama during1961-1965, had planned the terror, with which four men associated. Trials of the suspects had been delayed for several years in silence; however, the first three suspects had been punished one by one. The state court sentenced the first and the second suspects and found them guilty, while the third one died untried. The state court would hol...