Alabama state troopers attack Selma voting rights marchers on Bloody Sunday

Alabama State Troopers and Sheriff Jim Clark's deputies attacked 600 civil rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, using clubs and tear gas to stop a peaceful voting rights march to Montgomery. Co-led by SCLC's Hosea Williams and SNCC's John Lewis, the march was halted by direct order of Governor George Wallace. Fifty-eight marchers were hospitalized; ABC News interrupted its broadcast of Judgment at Nuremberg that evening to air 15 minutes of footage, bringing the violence into tens of millions of American homes.