Sunday, December 18, 2005

60 Minutes on "The Bridge to Gretna"

Greetings,

Please check out 60 Minutes this Sunday...

?THE BRIDGE TO GRETNA?

When Hurricane Katrina blew through New Orleans three months ago, thousands of
people left in the city were trapped with no food, water or shelter, desperate
to escape the devastation. The bridge that spans the Mississippi River from New
Orleans to Gretna was one of the few ways out, until police from Gretna used
force to stop pedestrians from crossing it. Since most of the police officers
were white and most of the evacuees were black, the incident quickly took on
racial overtones. So how -- and why -- were people who were only trying to walk
out of a devastated city prevented from reaching relative safety? Was this
really a case of racism, or merely the story of a desperate town government
trying to protect its citizenry? Ed Bradley investigates what happened on ?60
Minutes? this Sunday, Dec. 18, 7PM ET/PT on CBS.

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