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Kevin Turner, director of the University of Alabama-Birmingham Gospel Choir, has written 'You Don't Know What I Could Have Been.' The song is about the four girls who were killed in the Sept. 15, 1963, bombing of the city's Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.
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Kevin Turner, director of the University of Alabama-Birmingham Gospel Choir, has written 'You Don't Know What I Could Have Been.' The song is about the four girls who were killed in the Sept. 15, 1963, bombing of the city's Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.

Song recalls, honors slain children

By GREG GARRISON

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – After Sept. 15, 1963, the four girls killed in the Ku Klux Klan’s bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church were suspended in time and memory, never to grow up.

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