George Corley Wallace (1919-1998) was an Alabama governor and a third-party presidential candidate in 1968.Born on Aug. 25, 1919, at Clio, Ala., he studied at the University of Alabama and received hi...
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Arthur Bremer was a 21-year-old former janitor and busboy when he shot Alabama Gov. George Wallace five times during a presidential campaign stop in 1972 in Maryland.Now 57, Bremer is preparing for...
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Hillary Rodham Clinton's lead in the early polls may not be that reassuring if history is any guide. Republican hopeful Rudy Giuliani, however, is sitting pretty.For at least three decades, Republi...
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Gallup polling over the past three decades shows Republican front-runners usually win their party's nomination, but Democrats do not. Some elections:1972-DemocratsFebruary 1971: Edmund Muskie, 26 p...
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Ted Kennedy's direct link to Camelot means that his endorsement of Barack Obama will have national implications. But its impact might be most acute in Massachusetts, one of the largest states to vo...
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Arthur H. Bremer, who simply reached through a crowd to shoot George Wallace, walked quietly out of prison Friday and into a society far safer for presidential candidates than it was when he paraly...
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Former state Attorney General Richmond Flowers, a moderate on racial issues who challenged the dominance of segregationist Gov. George Wallace in the 1960s but saw his political career end in an ex...
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Oprah Winfrey has pulled a discredited children's book, Forrest Carter's "The Education of Little Tree," from a list of recommended titles on her Web site, blaming an archival "error" for including...
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George Corley Wallace
Wallace shooter to be released
