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15 May, 5 tweets, 2 min read
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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Harry Truman visits his proud mother, Martha Ellen Young Truman, on her front porch, Grandview, Missouri, summer 1944: #Wilkes
As ex-President, Harry Truman sold family farmland in Grandview, Mo., which became late 1950s Truman Corners Shopping Center:
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American Seventh Army soldiers cheer Allied victory atop platform where Hitler used to orate in Nuremberg, today 1945: #Abrahams
Old site of Hitler’s rallies at Nuremberg, as it looks, in deteriorated condition, today:
Seven years before VE-Day, Nazi rally in Nuremberg, 1938: #Jaeger
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Alf Landon is available for weddings, birthday parties and car wash openings to tell you how he really won the election of 1936 against FDR.
I won the ’36 election against FDR. By a lot. They’re finding new lost ballots in New York State all the time. It was fraud. A rigged election, and everybody knows it.
Opening acts for the former President at his early-bird-dinner performance tonight should be Joey Heatherton, Tiny Tim and Charo.
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“It’s About Time” (1966) lasted only one season but had a catchy theme song:

"Will they ever get away? Watch each week and see! Will they be returning to — the twentieth century?"
Later in its only season (1966), “It’s About Time” followed cave people transported through time to modern Los Angeles:
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American paratrooper drinks Hitler’s cognac on patio of his Alpine retreat at Berchtesgaden, spring 1945: #NARA
In Leipzig, when American soldiers arrive, high-ranking Nazi general has chosen to depart this life next to his beloved photograph of Hitler, this week 1945:
Photographer Lee Miller poses in Hitler's Munich bathtub as Allies are on verge of Victory in Europe, this month 1945: #Getty
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