During an outdoor rally in Laurel, Maryland, George Wallace
(right) the governor of Alabama and a presidential candidate
was shot by 21-year-old Arthur Bremer (left).
Three others were wounded, and Wallace was permanently
paralyzed from the waist down. The next day, while fighting
for his life in a hospital, he won major primary victories in
Michigan and Maryland.
On June 8, Shirley Chisholm, the first African American
woman elected to Congress and one of Wallace’s opponents
for the Democratic nomination, famously visited him in the
hospital to wish him well.
He remained in the hospital for several months, bringing his
third presidential campaign to an irrevocable end.
After his shooting, a hospitalized George C.
Wallace holds up a newspaper touting his
victories in the Maryland and Michigan
Democratic presidential primaries.
George Corley Wallace Jr. (August 25, 1919 – September
13, 1998).
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