12:45 pm UTC May. 20, 2021 Illustration by Mara Corbett; Gannett archives He laY on the pavement with a bullet wound in his stomach, engulfed in chaos and darkness. It was 1965. A year soon scarred by social and political upheaval: The assassination of Malcolm X. Bloody Sunday. The Vietnam War. The Watts Riots. Jimmie Lee Jackson would see none of it. The 26-year-old showed up the night of Feb. 18 in Marion, Alabama, where hundreds of people had gathered to march in protest of the arrest of a local civil rights activist. When police and state troopers intervened to break up the march, the scene outside Zion United Methodist Church turned violent.