Photos Vandalized at Civil Rights Museum

Someone broke into the National Voting Rights Museum in Selma, Ala., and destroyed more than 30 photographs of the 1965 Bloody Sunday clash. It was the second break-in in less than two weeks at the museum, which President Clinton visited earlier this year to mark the 35th anniversary of the landmark civil rights confrontation. Police Chief E.L. Tate discounted the possibility that the vandalism was racially motivated and said he suspects juveniles in both cases. Thirty to 40 photographs were ripped up, museum administrator Felicia Pettway said. The photographs, donated by the state, were taken at the 1965 confrontation, when troopers beat marchers as they tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge for a voting rights march to Montgomery.