FILE - In this May 10, 2007, file photo, retired Alabama state trooper James Bonard Fowler, center, leaves the Perry County Sheriff's Office after turning himself in Marion, Ala., for the shooting death of Jimmie Lee Jackson in 1965. Fowler pleaded guilty in 2010 to manslaughter and served five months in jail. (AP Photo/Rob Carr, File)
March 7, 2020
Stories this photo appears in:
March 7, 2020 9:51 p.m.
Civil rights: The road to Bloody Sunday began 30 miles away
MARION, Ala. (AP) — Della Simpson Maynor remembers the mounted police officer cracking her elbow with a baton. She recalls the panicked marchers unable to escape the onslaught, and the scuffle between officers and a young church deacon who was trying to protect his mother and grandfather. Most of all, she remembers the gunshot.