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Alabama Democrat Doug Jones is betting that his underdog bid for the U.S. Senate gets a boost, at home and nationally, from his role in convicting two Ku Klux Klansmen who killed four young black girls in the 1963 bombing of Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church.
A former U.S. attorney under President Bill Clinton, Jones highlights the case with a new ad campaign that begins Monday, seven weeks ahead of his Dec. 12 general election matchup against Republican Roy Moore, the controversial former jurist who twice lost his state Supreme Court post for defying federal courts.
A 30-second television spot tells Alabama voters that Jones, 63, got “justice for Alabama” by successfully prosecuting two bombing participants four decades after they killed Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley and Denise McNair, whose images appear in the ad.
“We’ve come so far since those dark days, but we still have a ways to go,” Jones, who is white, says in the ad. He concludes with an apparent swipe at Moore and an allusion to recent instance of racial violence around the United States: “It’s time, Alabama, to stand up for the Constitution, against violence and for unity.”
Yet just as the Jones…
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