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3/7/1965-525 civil rights advocates began a 54-mile march on a Sunday morning from Selma, AL, to the capital Montgomery, to promote voting rights for blacks. Just after crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the outskirts of Selma, the marchers were attacked in what became known as Bloody Sunday.
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Enforcing an order by Governor George Wallace, the group was broken up by state troopers & volunteer officers of the Dallas County sheriff who used tear gas, nightsticks, bullwhips & rubber tubing wrapped in barbed wire. John Lewis, then head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and a leader of the march, suffered a fractured skull.
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ABC television interrupted a Nazi war crimes drama, “Judgment at Nuremberg,” to show footage of the violence in Selma, confusing some viewers about who was beating whom.
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