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Michael Beschloss
@BeschlossDC
Author, PRESIDENTS OF WAR, 9 other books. @NBCNews Presidential Historian. @PBS contributor. Born Chicago.

May 15, 2021, 5 tweets

George Wallace was shot today 1972 while campaigning in Maryland Democratic Presidential primary: #CBS

“Wallace Is Shot; Condition Serious”—today 1972, reported by New York Times:

“The Wallace Shooting” of today 1972 in Life Magazine:

Day after his shooting of today 1972, George Wallace (by then paralyzed, in hospital, with wife Cornelia) won Maryland and Michigan Democratic Presidential primaries:

George Wallace in wheelchair, speaking to Democratic National Convention, Miami Beach, 1972, asked for party platform “that says what it used to say”: #MiamiHerald

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