Body of civil rights icon John Lewis crosses Alabama bridge for final time

The body of civil rights icon John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Sunday, decades after his "Bloody Sunday" beating there drew a national spotlight to the struggle for racial equality.

A military honour guard carried his American flag-draped casket from Brown Chapel AME Church to a horse-drawn carriage which crossed the rose-petal strewn bridge where the battering of Lewis by a white state trooper during a voting rights demonstration in 1965 became a focal point of the movement. The carriage driver wore a black top hat and a white face mask to guard against the spread of the coronavirus...