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OCTOBER 1, 1808
Civil rights clash recreated for tv movie
SELMA, Ala.
(AP) Selma has experienced a
second “Bloody Sunday,” with
hundreds of civil rights marchers
being turned back this time.
Actors and hundreds of extras
recreated the pivotal scene in
Selma’'s civil rights struggle for a
TV movie based on the book
“Selma, Lord, Selma” by Birming
ham News reporter Frank Sikora.
The move is scheduled to air on
ABC in January.
Emmy Award-winning pro
ducer Julian Fowles shot most of
the movie in Griffin, Ga., but he
and his crew returned Sunday to
the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where
civil rights marchers were beaten
on March 7, 1965.
They blocked the bridge much
of the day, carefully planning the
recreation.
“It took us a long time to orches
trate this and we did it on the first
take. That's very unusual,” Fowles
said.
The movie will tell the story of
the civil rights struggle through
the eyes of two girls who partici
pated in the real events. Rachel
West Nelson, then 9,and Sheyann
Webb-Christburg, who was 8,
served as extras on Sunday and
still have vivid memories of the
bloodshed.
“Yes, I was afraid, but I still
wanted to be in the midst and still
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Webb-Christburg said.
Her role is played by Jurnee
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Mrs. Webb-Christburg to get
ready for the part but depended
mainly on her mother to prepare
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LOS ANGELES
(AP) Tom Snyder had to
vamp through half of CBS
TV’s “The Late Show” when
country music star Waylon
Jennings left unannounced
before his interview.
Just after Snyder finished
interviewing Dr. Laura
Schlessinger on Wednesday
night, the show cut to a com
mercial and the producer
went to fetch Jennings, who
had already been through
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“I wanted to know how much of
this is the truth,” Jurnee said.
She was told a lot of the details
had been changed, but the main
points got through.
For example, Joe
Smitherman, mayor of Selma in
1965 and still mayor today, is
portrayed by an actor who or
ders barriers taken down at
makeup. Jennings was no
where to be found.
After the commercial,
Snyder introduced Jennings as
planned and then cut to the
empty chair.
“I've been doing this for 40
years, since I was a kid in Mil
waukee, and I've never had a
guest walk out before I intro
duced him,” Snyder said.
Snyder joked about inter
viewing his staff, then filled
the time by taking calls.
Edmund Pettus Bridge to let
the marchers through when they
started a second march.
“I didn't have anything to do
withit,” Smitherman said. He said
President Johnson ordered the
barricades down when he feder
alized the National Guard.
Fowles acknowledged the
changes. “Dramatic liberties are
sometimes taken in movies,” he
said.
Jennings had been prom
ised a 45-minute interview
and when the Schlessinger
segment ran long, cutting his
time to less than 20 minutes,
Jennings took off.
“I came a long way to do
this show and when I tell
somebody I'll do something,
my word is good, but I expect
the same from them. I didn’t
leave because I was mad, but
I had been misled and it was
the principle of it all,”
Jennings said in a statement.
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