Reporter’s Notebook: “Bloody Sunday” and the hope found in the despair

Reporter’s Notebook: “Bloody Sunday” and the hope found in the despair – CBS News


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Exactly 60 years ago, John Lewis was among hundreds of peaceful protesters who were crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, when they were met by brutal police violence. What gave him the courage to stand there in the face of a beating that would crack his skull? John Dickerson got the answer 50 years later.

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