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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Sixty years ago today, two heroic, courageous and idealistic young Black Americans, Vivian Malone and James Hood, entered the University of Alabama after JFK federalized the Alabama National Guard and Governor George Wallace stepped aside after trying to bar them:
During a partially-improvised Oval Office speech, JFK declares civil rights "a moral issue" and pledges to send comprehensive bill to Congress, sixty years ago tonight:
Medgar Evers, World War II veteran and NAACP field secretary in Mississippi, was murdered outside his home, hours after the civil rights speech JFK gave sixty years ago tonight:
Now why would anyone possibly think that a sudden, loud, unexplained boom in Washington DC on a Sunday afternoon might alarm anyone?
We take you now to the Ellipse, near the White House in Washington DC, where a flying saucer has landed. U.S. military tanks have rolled up, and a nervous crowd has gathered. . .
Someone has just stepped out of the flying saucer that landed near the White House after we heard that boom. He's shouting, "Take us to your leader -- Truman!"