Robert Edward Chambliss (January 14, 1904 – October 29, 1985), also known as "Dynamite Bob",[1] was a white supremacist terrorist convicted in 1977 of murder for his role as conspirator in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963.

A member of the United Klans of America, Chambliss also firebombed the houses of several African American families in Alabama.

[citation needed] A May 13, 1965, memo to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director J. Edgar Hoover identified Chambliss, Bobby Frank Cherry, Herman Frank Cash and Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr. as suspects in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing that killed four young African-American girls.

Years later it was found that the FBI had accumulated evidence against the named suspects that had not been revealed to the prosecutors by order of J. Edgar Hoover.

Chambliss died in Lloyd Noland Hospital and Health Center in Birmingham on October 29, 1985,[1] still proclaiming his innocence.