In this Feb. 16, 2020, photo, Elijah Rollins, eye witness to the 1965 death of Jimmie Lee Jackson, recounts the events of that day Jackson was killed in Marion, Ala. (AP Photo/Julie Bennett)
March 7, 2020
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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.