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Arthur Herman Bremer ( / ˈbrɛmər /; born August 21, 1950) is an American convicted criminal, whose attempt to assassinate U.S. Democratic presidential candidate George Wallace on May 15, 1972, in Laurel, Maryland, left Wallace permanently paralyzed from the waist down.
May 12, 2022 · Fifty years ago, a fame-seeker shot the polarizing politician five times, paralyzing him from the waist down. After his shooting, a hospitalized George C. Wallace holds up a newspaper touting...
Feb 9, 2010 · 1972. Alabama governor George Wallace shot. During an outdoor rally in Laurel, Maryland, George Wallace, the governor of Alabama and a presidential candidate, is shot by 21-year-old Arthur...
May 15, 2017 · The assassination attempt left Wallace suffering a lifetime of pain and medical complications brought on by his paralysis, complicated by Parkinson's disease he suffered later in life....
This short documentary uses rare, never-before-seen video to tell the story of how unemployed busboy Arthur Bremer followed Democratic presidential candidate George Wallace across the country...
Apr 13, 2023 · On May 15, 1972, Arthur Bremer shot presidential candidate George Wallace five times at a Maryland rally. And once his diaries were published while he was behind bars, it became clear that he also wanted to assassinate Richard Nixon.
May 9, 2012 · Nearly 40 years after the failed attempt of the gunman Arthur Bremer, to kill Wallace, Orenstein, 75, recounted the aftermath of an event that changed the course of American political history.
Jun 24, 2015 · As police and the press investigated the gunman, 21-year-old Arthur Bremer from Milwaukee, it became clear that the assassination attempt had little to do with politics. In fact, acquaintances described him as an “a-political” loner and his writings suggested that he had no issue with Wallace's hard-line stance on segregation. [3]
Jan 10, 2013 · Wallace in 1975, three years after he was paralyzed in an assassination attempt. In his later years, Wallace reached out to civil rights activists and black churches to ask forgiveness.
Feb 8, 2016 · The Southern segregationist candidate was left partially paralyzed by the attempted assassination, an event both familiar and shocking to a nation that had recently seen more than its share of...
