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George Wallace assassination attempt

closedUSMay 15, 1972

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George Wallace lies on the ground after the May 15, 1972 attempted assassination in Laurel, Maryland.
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The shooting of George Wallace was both an attempted assassination and a turning point in a bitter presidential campaign shaped by civil-rights backlash. A campaign-rally attack in Laurel, Maryland, ended Wallace's 1972 run as a serious national force while leaving unresolved questions about how to remember a politician whose later appeals for forgiveness never erased the harm of his segregationist politics.

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  1. 1.Smithsonian Magazine — How a Failed Assassination Attempt Pushed George Wallace to Reconsider His Segregationist Views
  2. 2.HISTORY.com — Alabama governor George Wallace shot
  3. 3.Wikipedia — George Wallace
  4. 4.Wikipedia — Arthur Bremer
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