style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:3.4pt">  “At Albany we got candy bars and cigarettes out of the vending machines and enjoyed the relative coolness (actually it was still pretty damn hot) of the breezy night. We chatted and ate and smoked and then eventually got back on the bus. So far, our experience had been relatively enjoyable, and perhaps our tension had lessened somewhat. I’m sure all of us would have told you that danger was still both possible and likely, but we couldn’t have known how close it really was.

“The next stop after Albany was in Dothan, Alabama. It was about two hours before sunrise, and I’m sure the driver was tired. I don’t know if the group at Dothan had heard what happened at Macon, but the driver later said he never...

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