My father was a Police Detective on the Birmingham Police Force while Bull Connor was Public Safety Commissioner, and Connor was kind of my honorary godfather.
My father said that Connor didn’t really like what he ended up doing, but that if he didn’t, he said that he’d likely be lynched himself.
I was on the college track team with one of his close relatives. He loaned me his “Hurdler”s Bible”. I learned a lot from it.
“All you gotta do is tell them you’re going to bring the dogs. Look at ‘em run. I want to see the dogs work’’.-Eugene “Bull’’ Conner. WTF are you talking about?