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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 ...
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. Bremer was found guilty and sentenced to 63 years (53 years after an ...
The song was inspired by An Assassin's Diary, published in 1973 and written by Arthur Bremer, who, on May 15, 1972, attempted to assassinate George Wallace, a Democratic Party politician who supported racial segregation. Gabriel talked about the book in an interview with Sounds magazine:
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.
Bremer's diary, An Assassin's Diary, published after his arrest, shows he was motivated in the assassination attempt by a desire for fame, not by political ideology. [b] He had considered President Nixon an earlier target. [70] He was convicted at trial. On August 4, 1972, Bremer was sentenced to 63 years in prison, [73] later reduced to 53 ...
The diary of would-be assassin Arthur Bremer and Pickpocket, a film by the French director Robert Bresson were also cited as influences. [16] In Scorsese on Scorsese, Scorsese mentions the religious symbolism in the story, comparing Bickle to a saint who wants to cleanse or purge both his mind and his body of weakness.
Assassins is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by John Weidman, based on an original concept by Charles Gilbert Jr.. Using the framing device of an all-American, yet sinister, carnival game, the semi-revue portrays a group of historical figures who attempted (successfully or not) to assassinate Presidents of the United States, and explores what their presence in ...
episodes. This is a list of episodes for the television series Arthur . During the course of the series, Arthur has aired a total of 253 episodes and 7 specials. The series began airing on October 7, 1996, and ended on February 21, 2022. [ 1] Seasons 1–15 were produced by Cookie Jar Group (seasons 1–8 as CINAR, seasons 9–15 as Cookie Jar ...