LONE GUNMAN, NO VISIBLE MEANS OF SUPPORT
NOVANEWS
THE STRANGE AND STILL UNSOLVED CASE OF GEORGE WALLACE
THE BROKE, DIARY-WRITING LONER WITH MONEY TO SPARE
On this day in 1972, presidential candidate George Wallace was shot by an ultra-mobile “lone nut” who apparently had limitless amounts of cash.
No one talks about the attempted assassination of George Wallace.
First of all, he survived. Second, he was not a terribly sympathetic figure.
He was running against Richard Nixon and was at least the third candidate to run against him who happened to be shot.
The others of course were John Kennedy who beat him and Robert Kennedy who was on the road to doing the same. Martin Luther King a political opponent of Nixon’s also ended up being shot by a strange “loner” around the same time.
Some interest...