May 15: Twenty-one-year-old Arthur Bremer shoots Wallace in Laurel, Maryland, paralyzing him below the waist. Bremer's diary, published after his arrest as "An Assassin's Diary," showed that ...

After sweeping the Florida primary, Wallace was campaigning in Maryland when tragedy struck. A mentally disturbed janitor, Arthur Bremer, shot Wallace, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down.

Arthur Bremer, jailed for 35 years for shooting and paralyzing former Alabama Gov. George Wallace, was released Friday from a Maryland prison. Arthur Bremer, whose 1972 assassination attempt left ...