Archive for May 15th, 2012

PRESIDENTIAL RUN ENDED ON THIS DAY IN 1972

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GeorgeWallace shooting

Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot five times by Arthur Bremer
while campaigning for the U.S. Presidency in Laurel, MD. The shots left Wallace permanently paralyzed from the waist down.


BREMMER

Arthur Bremer is taken into custody by Maryland police moments
after Wallace was shot

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George Wallace (in wheelchair) with Ted Kennedy

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TRINI LOPEZ IS 75 TODAY

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Trini Lopez took folk songs and made them into rocking
Latin rhythms, recording 14 chart albums and 13 chart
singles between 1963 and 1968.

 


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