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It was a sunny, but chilly sunday morning as more than 500 civil rights demonstrators made their way through the main business district of the city, ignoring the stares of the white people and defying the court order of a local judge as they headed in the direction of the bridge. i was sent as one of three reporters for the "new york times" to selma. i'm watching with this photographer and a few other reporters, we see young john lewis. i don't think he was more than 23 or 24. very young man. scrawny little guy who didn't seem to be very formidable or enduring, but he was. >> we are marching t...

>> when kennedy's in paris, he is epitomizing the triumph of american culture. the big music in all of europe was rock 'n' roll. the most interesting artists of the era were jackson pollack and his drip paintings and mark rothko and his color codes and robert rauschenberg and his collages. we were selling our pop culture in art and style all over the world, and everybody was buying. >> but there was also the civil unrest at home. >> we're marching today to dramatize to the nation and dramatize to the world that hundreds and thousands of negro citizens of alabama, but particularly here in the b...

>> when king's group organized a protest march from selma to montgomery in march 1965, sncc refused to join. but john lewis chose to march anyway at the front of the line. >> we're marching today to dramatize to the nation and hundreds of thousands of negro citizens of alabama denied the right to vote. >> his knapsack had an apple and toothbrush. he was ready to go to jail as he had so often before but he was also prepared for worse. >> john just was always available to risk death, and i think it was not that he wanted to die, it was that the basis of his leadership was showing a fearlessness ...

They were fearless. >> when king's group organized a protest march from selma to montgomery in march 1965, sncc refused to join. but john lewis chose to march anyway at the front of the line. >> we're marching today to dramatize to the nation and hundreds of thousands of negro citizens of alabama denied the right to vote. >> his nknapsack had an apple ad toothbrush. he was ready to go to jail as he had so often before but he was also prepared for worse. >> he was always available to reach death and i don't think it was he wanted to die. it was the basis of his leadership was showing a fearless...

Selma, alabama, march 7, 1965. it was a sunny, but chilly, sunday morning as more than 500 civil rights demonstrators made their way to the main business district of the city, ignoring the stares of the white people and defying the court order of a local judge as they headed in the direction of the bridge. >> i was sent as one of three reporters for "the new york times" to selma. i'm watching with this photographer mcnamara, a few other reporters. we see young john lewis. i don't think he was more than 23 or 24. he was a very young man, scrawny little guy who didn't seem to be very formidable ...