Fort Report: John Lewis
August 01, 2020
August 01, 2020
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Nebraska, issued the following column:
On March 7, 1965, on Selma, Alabama's Edmund Pettus Bridge, Alabama state troopers gassed and beat hundreds of nonviolent protesters who were there protesting for voting rights. The first to be beaten was the young John Lewis, whose skull was cracked by the blunt force of a billy club. Photographer and TV reporters caught the brutal violence of "Bloody Sunday," which would go on to define . . .
On March 7, 1965, on Selma, Alabama's Edmund Pettus Bridge, Alabama state troopers gassed and beat hundreds of nonviolent protesters who were there protesting for voting rights. The first to be beaten was the young John Lewis, whose skull was cracked by the blunt force of a billy club. Photographer and TV reporters caught the brutal violence of "Bloody Sunday," which would go on to define . . .