Alabama Governor George Wallace (above) was shot five times by Arthur Bremer
(below) while campaigning as a Democratic candidate for president in Laurel,
Maryland. One of the bullets lodged in Wallace’s spinal column and he was left
paralyzed permanently from the waist down. Three others were wounded in the
shooting and also survived. Bremer was found guilty and sentenced to 63 years,
53 years after an appeal in a Maryland prison for the shooting. After 35 years of incarceration, Bremer was released from prison on November 9, 2007.

The would-be assassin Arthur Bremer in custody.

Elvis Presley visits George Wallace after his release from the hospital.

Eddy Arnold,was a country music singer who performed for six decades. He
was a innovator of the Nashville sound in the late 1950s, and scored 147
songs on the Billboard country music charts, second only to George Jones. He
sold more than 85 million records. A member of the Grand Ole Opry, beginning
in 1943, and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1966, Arnold ranked 22nd on  
Country Music Television’s 2003 list of "The 40 Greatest Men of Country Music”.

As the world’s first airline stewardess, war heroine, and aviation pioneer Ellen
Church (above) created a new and exciting profession for young girls of the
twentieth century. While working as a registered nurse in San Francisco, Ellen
was employed by Boeing Air Transport (BAT), the predecessor to United airlines
in 1930. she soon organized the pioneer group, "Sky Girls" (pictured below).The
eight girls, all registered nurses, were hired as stewardess on their flights for a
three-month trial run. It was the beginning of what other airlines thought at the
time to be a bold experiment.

The “Sky Girls”

The Boeing tri-motor

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  In his autobiography, Marching Along, John Phillip Sousa (above) wrote that
  he composed the march, "The Stars and Stripes Forever"on Christmas Day
  1896. He had just learned of the recent death of David Blakely, then manager
  of the Sousa Band. Sousa said he was on a ferry in Europe at the time, when
  he composed the march in his head and committed the notes to paper upon
  arrival in America. It was performed for the first time. It was at a ceremony
  where a statue of George Washington was unveiled.

  
  U.S. Marine Band with director John Philip Sausa

George Walton Lucas, Jr. is best known for being the creator of the Star Wars
franchise and the adventures of  Indiana  Jones. He is  founder/chairman of
Lucasfilm Ltd. and is one of the industry’s most successful directors/producers. 

1973

George Lucas with director Steven Spielberg (right).