Wallace is shot---50th Anniversary

1972: Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot and left paralyzed by Arthur H. Bremer while campaigning in Laurel, Md., for the Democratic presidential nomination. (Wallace died in 1998; Bremer was released from prison in November 2007 after serving 35 years of a 53-year sentence for attempted murder.)

 

Photos: the clothing Wallace (and his wife) were wearing 50 years ago today when he was shot, and the wheelchair he spent the rest of his life using to get around. (The materials are preserved in the Alabama Department of Archives and History).