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To: kristinn; Graybeard58

Wounded with the governor were: his personal body guard, Alabama State Trooper Capt. E. C. Dothard, hit in the stomach; Dora Thompson, a Wallace campaign volunteer, 5106 59th Ave., Rogers Heights, Md., and hit in the leg, a Secret Service agent, Nick Zarvos.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/daily/sept98/wallace051672.htm

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A few hours later at the Laurel Shopping Center, Wallace did shake hands against the advice of his Secret Service detail.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/george-wallaces-assassination-attempt-fbi-agent-reflects-40-years-later/2012/05/08/gIQAkmRnCU_story.html


66 posted on 10/14/2015 7:57:21 AM PDT by deport
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To: deport

Thanks. I stand corrected on Wallace having Secret Service protection.


75 posted on 10/14/2015 9:43:06 AM PDT by kristinn (Welcome to the Soviet States of Obama)
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