NBC News presents another special report. This NBC News special report is from Montgomery, Alabama. An NBC

news reporter is describing something that just happened to him and his crew as they

arrived in Montgomery to cover a new story. We arrived in Montgomery at about

1015 Maurice Levy sound man we,

Risser, and I jumped out of our car

to photograph the debarking from the bus itself.

This is NBC news correspondent Herbert Caplo.

He and his crew had been following a bus which pulled into Montgomery

Alabama on Saturday morning and it quickly became clear that there were people in

Montgomery who did not want that bus stopping in their

city and they really didn't want reporters there documenting what they were about

to do to the people on that bus.

Then a heavy set man asked me whether I was one of the group.

I said I was not.

I noticed then that he was holding in his right hand an open pen knife with a blade extended. A few moments later someone else pointed out

that this very same man that Levy was making pictures. The man, now the knife I believe had

been put away because I no longer saw it,

he went right to Levy and started to strike at him, which started this violence.

Levy backed off, still trying to make some pictures pictures others joined in the attack on the

cameraman and on Risser who was carrying sound equipment. Levy at one point

fell to the ground and the fat man kicked him and then got up, the camera was knocked from his hands,

as was the small amplifier from Risser.

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