you always double-check everything in your hotel room before you leave it I think we got everything ladies and gentlemen could I please have your attention I've just been handed an urgent and horrifying news story I need all of you to stop what you're doing [Music] [Music] right now we are at the voting rights Memorial Park here in Selma Alabama a few people that started the Selma to Montgomery March John Lewis he's a congressman right now I think he's a congressman for the state of Georgia when your children shall ask you in the time to come saying what mean these twelve stones then you should tell them how you made it over Joshua for 2122 a pretty cool mural on the wall behind me here dr. Martin Luther King jr. right there in the front right here behind me is the Tomb of the Unknown slave in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier buried right next to each other Morial Park they just built pathways all this to honor the Voting Rights what is pretty neat though is right here is the Edmund Pettus Bridge that famous bridge where they started the the wall as a matter of fact the Bloody Sunday happened right here at the entrance to this bridge [Music] it's also a shot former President Barack Obama came to Selma there's a shot of him standing right at the entrance to the admit it is free here we are directly under the Edmund Pettus Bridge pretty cool side [Music] what this structure used to be but it almost looks like a stage in a way of some seating areas so it looks like a wreck get out here the pathway building so you know it's good it's quite pungent the March to Montgomery letting Sunday right here 60% of the time it works every time [Music] [Music] [Music] right here behind me is the famous Edmund Pettus Bridge that's famous because the Bloody Sunday happened right here [Music] right here where I'm standing there's a famous shot of President Barack Obama giving a speech about the history of Selma Alabama from right here where I'm standing it sprage started the march from Selma to Montgomery history marker here US Congress approves the Voting Rights Act of 1965 television coverage of Bloody Sunday shocked millions and galvanized support for Congress to remove obstacles that prevented minorities from voting most of you remember it but maybe not have seen it also at the bottom of this placard it says Selma that Oprah Winfrey in ava duvernay film about voting rights was nominated for the Best Picture Academy Awards whole before the PBS anniversary of Bloody Sunday and movie was filmed right here in the same spot as we'll it wasn't done on a soundstage this is songs of Selma I don't know what that has to do with so you know it's good it's quite pungent Sting's this area just comes down to a platform which the boards don't want to eat all that save I'm just gonna say it overlooks the river here all of Selma Alabama to me it almost gives like a New Orleans type feel have you ever played Monopoly if you have then you will recognize this location here the st. James hotel the reason that it does have a New Orleans feel to it as this placard behind me shows that the French soldier Lafayette who is in the history books is famous visited this area and brought his knowledge along with it here this placard here kind of explains a little bit film is water Avenue is one of the finest surviving examples of the 19th century riverfront Street in the towel so I envisioned in this video today planned it well all this rain is coming down it's kind of throwing all that at the window so I'm gonna have to cut out a lot of things that I plan to show you [Music] we were riding around and found the cemetery checking us out awesome monument here with this wrought iron gate around it this old gothic style monument with the angel inside of it here's Sally a Jones Featherston died in 1909 somebody has removed part of the gates this one is coming open this tall one here is from 1796 is when they died yeah it's made with bits of real panther and say you know it's good I've never seen one that James Joseph murders 1965 I've never seen one that just openly said murdered on it before I'm here at the old Depot museum and Selma it's not open but there are some neat things around it this placard here is pretty cool marks the site of the Selma Navy Yard and the Ordnance worse destroyed by the Federals in 1865 walking over here to an object though that caught my eye here I have no idea what it is but it's huge like a turn wheel here and it's like it's on some kind of track if you know what it is put it in the comments below because I do not there's an anvil that has a placard on it that says this anvil was used in Selma's Confederate Arsenal to make armament for Southern forces there's an old caboose there's another train car over there behind it [Music] no fire engine there so we pull up into the driveway at home and it stops raining how about that sure it rang me out of doing everything pretty much I wanted to do today but I'm gonna in the video now I want to thank everybody for watching and I will see you tomorrow ladies and gentlemen can I please have your attention I've just been handed an urgent and horrifying news story I need all of you to stop what you're doing [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music]