Charles Mauldin was a teenager when Martin Luther King Jr. led a march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., in 1965 that ended with state troopers attacking civil rights demonstrators. He recalled the ordeal at a memorial for civil rights icon John Lewis on Saturday.

Lewis suffered a skull fracture that day and was one of fifty-eight people who were treated for injuries.

Mauldin said he was “close enough” to Lewis, who had led the march alongside MLK, “to hear that crack.”

“I’ll never forget it,” he said.

Lewis died on July 17 after a battle with Stage IV pancreatic cancer. He was 80 years old.

For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca/news/7217835/john-lewis-troy-alabama-memorial/
Subscribe to Global News Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/20fcXDc
Like Global News on Facebook HERE: http://bit.ly/255GMJQ
Follow Global News on Twitter HERE: http://bit.ly/1Toz8mt
Follow Global News on Instagram HERE: https://bit.ly/2QZaZIB
#JohnLewis #BloodySunday #USPolitics #GlobalNews