Arthur Bremer

Arthur Bremer

Arthur Herman Bremer (born August 21, 1950) is an American convicted for an assassination attempt on U.S. Democratic presidential candidate George Wallace on May 15, 1972 in Laurel, Maryland, leaving Wallace permanently paralyzed from the waist down. Bremer was found guilty and sentenced to 63 years (53 years after an appeal) in a Maryland prison for the shooting of Wallace and three bystanders.

After 35 years of incarceration, Bremer was released from prison on November 9, 2007.

Read more about Arthur Bremer:  Early Life, After School, Brief Relationship, Richard Nixon, Plans To Assassinate Wallace, The Shooting, Arrest, Trial and Conviction, Aftermath, Sentence and Release, In Popular Culture

Famous quotes containing the word arthur:

    My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied.
    —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)