Bloody Sunday state troopers attack voting rights marchers at Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma

Alabama state troopers and a mounted posse attack 600 civil rights marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, as they begin a march to Montgomery to demand Black voting rights. The nationally televised violence, captured by ABC News, which interrupts Judgment at Nuremberg to broadcast footage, galvanizes national opinion and provides President Johnson with the political opening to push the Voting Rights Act through Congress. The event becomes known as "Bloody Sunday."