The Burning Bus

While the Riders awaited rescue, the bus continued to burn. The Anniston Fire Department extinguished the flames and administered oxygen. A state trooper called an ambulance, but it took Cowling to force the driver to carry the injured black Riders as well as the white to Anniston Memorial Hospital. The Greyhound bus itself was towed to Birmingham for evidence collection. No one knows what happened to it after that, and only replicas now exist.

Anniston, Alabama · United States