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Shooting of Gov. George Wallace...
Shooting of Gov. George Wallace...
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May 16, 1972
DAILY NEWS, from New York City, dated May 16, 1972
* George Wallace shot
* Alabama Governor
Front pagee has a bold 2 line banner head taking almost half the front page:
* WALLACE IS SHOT
plus a photo of Mrs. Wallace kneeling over her husband seconds after her husband was shot.
More reports & photos about the shooting inside. Tabloid-size, in good condition. 32 pages.
wikipedia notes: Wallace was shot five times by Arthur Bremer while campaigning in Laurel, Maryland, on May 15, 1972 at a time when he was receiving high ratings in the opinion polls. Bremer was seen at a Wallace rally in Wheaton, Maryland, earlier that day and two days earlier at a rally in Dearborn, Michigan. As one of the bullets lodged in Wallace's spinal column, Wallace was left paralyzed from the waist down for the rest of his life. The three others who were wounded in the shooting also survived. Bremer's diary, An Assassin's Diary, published after his arrest shows the assassination attempt was motivated by a desire for fame, not by politics and that President Nixon had been an earlier target. Bremer was sentenced to fifty-three years in prison on 4 August 1972. He served thirty-five years and was released on parole on November 9, 2007.
Following the shooting, Wallace won primaries in Maryland, Michigan, Tennessee, and North Carolina. From his wheelchair, Wallace spoke at the Democratic National Convention in Miami on July 11, 1972. The Democratic nominee, South Dakota Senator George McGovern, was later defeated by President Nixon who carried 49 of the 50 states; McGovern only carried Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.
Since Wallace was out of Alabama for more than twenty days when he was recovering in Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland, the state constitution required the lieutenant governor Jere Beasley to serve as acting governor from June 5 until Wallace's return to Alabama on July 7. Wallace never returned to Maryland again.
Wallace easily won the gubernatorial primary election election of November 1974.
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