 So in the words of survivors, quote, I was a junior in school that day, and we were decorating a hall that evening in preparation for our junior senior prom. I saw people gathering at the theater, so I went to see what was going on. The fellow on the stage kept saying, we're not going to let them lynch him. We're not going to let that happen. We're going to go to town to stop it. We're going to go downtown to protect