Marco Rubio and Dan Sullivan were each trying to honor Mr. Lewis on social media when they mistakenly posted photos of Mr. Cummings, a Black congressman who died in October. And a hundred years from now, none of us will be on this earth.' Twitter was quick to criticize Mr. Rubio for confusing the congressmen. ", “I guess being mistaken does have its advantages, though,” Lewis continued. Legal Statement. The film is not only deeply researched and richly textured through archival images; director Dawn Porter skillfully connects the history Lewis and other civil rights pioneers made to the situation we find ourselves in today. She wrote in her statement Tuesday that even she has corrected "friendly acquaintances" more than once. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File). Cummings plays a prominent role in the outstanding CNN documentary on Lewis titled "John Lewis: Good Trouble," which premieres at 9 p.m. EDT … The film moves in one early segment from archival footage of Lewis and other voting-rights marchers being beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, in 1965 to the long lines of citizens meeting with unforgivable delays in trying to vote in the 2018 midterm elections. Is that what Cummings sounded like to you? Remember what they did to Kavanaugh? Legal Statement. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died Friday, July 17, 2020. One of the original 13 Freedom Riders, he was a powerful force in the U.S. civil rights movement, helping organize the March on Washington and other demonstrations. But then came a call from a CNN publicist telling me about a documentary about the late Rep. John Lewis premiering on television Sunday. May God grant him eternal rest.”. Maybe one day when I have a schedule conflict, I’ll see if he wouldn’t mind sitting in a hearing for me. The original photo, taken in February 2014 by Philadelphia Inquirer photojournalist Lauren Schneiderman, was removed from Schneiderman’s personal website. The mistake is so common Lewis' name is currently trending on Twitter due to a slew of corrections. © 2020 www.dispatch.com. As the level of rancor and invective rises in media debates over the battles for the Supreme Court and White House, I have been looking for signs of hope. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Senator Marco Rubio later acknowledged having used an incorrect photo in a Twitter tribute to Representative John Lewis, who died on Friday. All rights reserved. For a while the day of Cummings’ passing, John Lewis was trending on Twitter, enraging many. “John Lewis was a genuine American hero,” he added.

He announced in December that he had Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. “It was an honor to know & be blessed with the opportunity to serve in Congress with John Lewis a genuine & historic American hero,” Rubio tweeted Saturday.