"Bill Baxley and Doug Jones have earned high places in Southern history by helping Alabama — at least for a few precious moments — overcome the reputational damage done by Wallace, Bull Connor and Chambliss’s claque of K.K.K. bombers. For years, Chambliss had walk-in, coffee-drinking privileges at Connor’s police command center. Chambliss also told 16th Street investigators that he had turned on Wallace only when the governor, who knew him on sight, tried to avoid shaking hands with him and his wife at a segregationist rally in a Birmingham hotel".
From a N.Y. Times review of U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-Alabama) new book "Bending Towards Justice" by Howell Raines.
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