may 15, 1972 - Governer shot

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He was running for the Democratic nomination in ’72 when he was shot on May 15 while campaigning in Maryland. The shooting paralyzed Wallace from the waist down and killed his presidential hopes. “Did you expect me to squeeze out some tears?” Opal Jewel asked a reporter for the Associated Press, before riffing on Wallace’s most notorious quote: “Sorry to say I’m fresh out now, fresh out tomorrow, fresh out forever.”

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