Arthur Bremer due to be released

ABC Radio News | 23 Aug 07 | ABC Radio news

[RightWhale]

http://www.who2.com/arthurbremer.html

21-year-old Arthur Bremer shot Alabama governor George Wallace at a presidential campaign rally in Laurel, Maryland on 15 May 1972.

Arthur Bremer, 57, is due to be released after serving 35 years of the 53 year sentence for the attempted assassination of George Wallace.

[trumandogz]

“In Birmingham they love the Governor...Boo,Boo,Boo”

Lynyrd Skynyrd

“Sweet Home Amabama”

[trumandogz]

“In Birmingham they love the Governor...Boo,Boo,Boo”

Lynyrd Skynyrd

“Sweet Home Alabama”

[ConservativeDude]

Just damn, I had no idea that this was another Taxi Driver episode. And I also had no idea he stalked Nixon. A true sicko.

[DouglasKC]

In one instance during a snowstorm in the winter of 1971/1972, Bremer chose to drive his car back and forth over the fallen snow, instead of shoveling it.

Is that considered weird behavior??? I do that quite a bit. It can be a good strategy depending on conditions and general laziness levels.

[bkepley]

It was more than attempted. Wallace was taken out of the campaign, so it was successful to that extent.

His purpose was to "prove his manhood", not to take Wallace out of the campaign.

[isom35]

he’ll fit right in then.

[mtbopfuyn]

I wonder how much time the average murderer serves in Maryland nowadays, bearing in mind that Bremer didn’t actually murder anyone?

Isn't that the way it usually goes.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Is Bremer going to vacation in Hyannisport?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Anyone remember Wallace’s running mate ?

[mtbopfuyn]

Grommet?

[Graybeard58]

Gen. Curtis Lemay.

[Graybeard58]

OOPS! That's rong.

[Lancey Howard]

Hmmmm. If Wallace died as a result of complications from his gunshot wound, maybe somebody should charge Bremer with murder and throw him back in the can.

[Graybeard58]

I was right the first time, it was Lemay.

Not enough coffee in me yet.

This is a record for me. Having to correct myself twice in a row.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Bombs away with Curtis Lemay!

[RightWhale]

I would think so. But, there are a lot of institutions involved in this, not just a couple FR posters.

[Wallace T.]

One of the more interesting "what ifs" is what the outcome of the 1972 Presidential campaign would have been had George Wallace not been shot. While Wallace had done well in Democrat primaries in Maryland and Michigan, and probably would have won most of the Southern primaries, he could never have taken the party nomination, which was won by George McGovern. Wallace had run as an independent in 1968, and might well have done so again in 1972. Richard Nixon's overwhelming victory that year was due to the defection of whites in the South and blue collar unionized workers in the Northeast and Midwest from their historical and ancestral voting patterns, as McGovern was associated with the antiwar wing of his party. In the words of a prominent Republican of the time, the Democrats had become the party of "acid, amnesty, and abortion". This was the "Southern Strategy" outlined in Kevin Phillips' work, The Emerging Republican Majority.

Had Wallace not been shot, many of those voters, later termed Reagan Democrats, may well have voted for him. There was also discontent with Nixon on the right wing of the Republican Party due to his centrist and even liberal policies: wage and price controls, recognition of Red China, establishment of OSHA and the EPA, promotion of afifrmative action, etc. Ohio Congressman John Ashcroft even staged a quixotic challenge to Nixon in the Republican primaries. Some of the disaffected conservatives might have defected to Wallace as well: by 1972, unlike in 1968, Nixon had established a track record in the Oval Office. Had McGovern won as the result of an independent run by Wallace or Wallace somehow actually won the election, the history of the 1970s and beyond would have been far different.

Needless to say, Arthur Bremer's shooting of the Alabama governor changed the course of American history.

[Lancey Howard]

Did you see this?:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1885178/posts

[RightWhale]

Thanks for finding that.

[Dixiekraut]

Wow. I used to work in that area in the 80’s...remember eating lunch frequently at a Friendly’s in the mall..seemed like a nice enough place back then but it soon turned into a ghost town...I think Dan Snyder was going to buy the land for Redskins parking ..the stadium is almost across the street from there.