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Arthur Herman Bremer (/ ˈ b r ɛ m ər /; 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. Bremer was found guilty and sentenced to 63 years (53 years after an ...
LC Class. E840.8.B73. An Assassin's Diary ( ISBN 0-06-120470-6) is a book written by Arthur Bremer and Harding Lemay and released in 1973. It was based on part of the diary of Bremer, the would-be assassin of Alabama governor George Wallace. Bremer shot Wallace on May 15, 1972, at the Laurel Shopping Center in Laurel, Maryland, while Wallace ...
Moments later, 21-year-old Arthur Bremer of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, pulled out a handgun and opened fire. Wallace survived the assassination attempt but was paralyzed from the waist down.
On May 15, 1972, Wallace was shot four times by Arthur Bremer while campaigning at the Laurel Shopping Center in Laurel, Maryland, at a time when he was receiving high ratings in national opinion polls. [67] Bremer was seen at a Wallace rally in Wheaton, Maryland, earlier that day and two days earlier at a rally in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Wallace, the governor of Alabama, was known for his segregationist views, which he later renounced. Arthur Bremer was convicted in the shooting and sentenced to prison. He was released in 2007.
What happened: While campaigning, presidential candidate George C. Wallace, then the governor of Alabama, was shot at a shopping center by Bremer. He was hit four times, including in the abdomen ...
While campaigning in Laurel, Maryland, on May 15, 1972, Wallace was shot five times by Arthur Bremer. Three others wounded in the shooting also survived. Bremer's diary, published after his arrest as a book titled An Assassin's Diary, showed that Bremer's assassination attempt was not motivated by politics, but by a desire for fame, and that ...
What might have become a forceful campaign was cut short when Wallace was shot in an assassination attempt by Arthur Bremer on May 15. Wallace was struck by five bullets and left paralyzed from the waist down. The day after the assassination attempt, Wallace won the Michigan and Maryland primaries, but the shooting effectively ended his ...