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As a boy and even a young man, Tom Cherry loved and looked up to his father as a hero. Nothing unusual about that.
Unfortunately, not only did Cherry's father have feet of clay, they may also be stained with blood. It was Cherry's grand jury testimony that helped bring about the arrest of his father.
To borrow a line from another cops and lawyers show, "Sins of the Father," which premieres 9 p.m. Sunday on cable channel FX, is definitely ripped from today's headlines, including Friday's Salt Lake Tribune.
As of Thursday, Cherry's father, the 72-year-old Bobby Frank Cherry, was judged mentally competent to stand trial for the 1963 bombing of the predominantly African-American-attended Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., which killed four young girls.
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