Posted on 11/08/2007 6:30:00 PM PST by Graybeard58
Arthur H. Bremer, who has spent the past 35 years behind bars for shooting and paralyzing former Alabama Gov. George Wallace during a presidential campaign stop in Maryland in 1972, was scheduled to be released Friday from the state prison system.
Prison officials, who have sought to keep Bremer's release low-key, refused to confirm the date, which was disclosed in an e-mail to victims. They also would not say where Bremer, 57, will live, though prison system sources said it will be somewhere in Maryland.
Maryland Parole Commission Chairman David Blumberg said in August that officials were trying to find transitional housing for Bremer -- such as a halfway house -- in a rural area away from larger population centers. He also said special conditions would be imposed, such as requiring that he stay away from political candidates and rallies or public events.
A native of Milwaukee, Bremer was 21, a high school graduate and janitor, when he shot Wallace and wounded three others, including a Secret Service agent, during a political rally at a Laurel shopping center. The shooting forced Wallace, the one time segregationist, to abandon his maverick bid to become the Democratic Party's presidential nominee.
In journal entries that came out at his trial, Bremer wrote that he had stalked President Richard M. Nixon and wanted to make a "statement of my manhood for the world to see." He later switched to Wallace, a less well-guarded target than a sitting president.
Described as a model prisoner at the Maryland Correctional Institution in Hagerstown,
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I see a book and a movie.
Big news here,,better stay in La-La Land..Folks still like Wallace here,,
Great! Just in time for another presidential election. It’s gonna be a fun year!
A native of Milwaukee...
Hometown Proud!
Just in time for the primaries...
Disgraceful. And as sad the release itself is, this guy may well become a magnet for radicals of all stripes.
Dang.
I was home sick the day Wallace was shot. I’ll always remember the report/coverage.
Who is next to be released? Sirhan Sirhan? Charles Manson? Squeaky Fromme?
Pity it's not in Texas.
I'd be really tempted to level up the scales a bit...
Hmmmmm.....
Shot a non-conformist Dem candidate did he?
Obama should assign someone to make sure the Hillary campaign doesn’t hire him.
I thought Chappaqua was in NY not MD. If this man hires a good agent, he has a lucrative career ahead of him in the radical left wing rubber chicken speaking circuit.
crazy.....I know lifers for smuggling pot
Just curious as to what kind of finanacial support this man might have. . .or expect. A good ‘jail record’ does not translate to a good resume. . .
Yikes, just in time for the Annapolis "peace" conference.
Or embezzling, etc,. We know where the heart of our justice system lies. It's all about the money.
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