**FILE**The Rev. John H. Cross Jr., pastor of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, points to the spot where four girls lost their lives in Birmingham, Ala. on Sept. 19, 1963. An explosion ripped a large hole in a basement wall and threw the girls' bodies against the wall. Cross who dug through the rubble of his Alabama church looking for survivors of a bombing and then presided over a funeral for some of the youngest victims of civil rights-era violence, died Thursday,Nov. 15, 2007, in Hillandale, Ga.. He was 82. (AP Photo)