In the days after the news film aired, a dozen legislators spoke on the floor of Congress linking Alabama Gov. George Wallace to Hitler and its state troopers to Nazi storm troopers.

But there was also the fact that the footage from Selma thematically complemented “Judgment at Nuremberg.” In the days after the news film aired, a dozen legislators spoke on the floor of Congress ...

"Several members of the movement in Selma wanted to carry Jimmie Lee Jackson's body to Montgomery and deliver it to Gov. George Wallace," a virulent civil rights foe.

Fifty years ago, George Wallace was winning Democratic presidential primaries. Gunfire ended his campaign but not the political forces he unleashed.