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C ush TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1972 Phone 223.6000 Circuh Wallace Is Shot, At Laurel Rally; Seriously Hurt Suspect Seized Milwaukee Man Held As Suspect By Richard M. Cohen Washington Post Staff Writer Police Were holding a man identified as Arthur Bremer, 21, of Milwaukee, Wis., last night as a suspect in the shooting of Gov. George. C. Wallace. Maryland State Police Supt. Col. Tom Smith said at a briefing last night at Holy Cross Hospital in Sil- ver Spring, where Wallace was being treated, th a t Bremer was pummeled after the shooting by the crowd attending a rally for Wallace at a shopping center in Laurel and was arrested by both Prince George's County police and Secret Service agents. Prince George's County Executive William W. Gul- lett said at the briefing that Bremer was taken to a hospital and was being checked for injuries. Gul- lett refused to identify the hospital, but Col. John Rho- es, assistant chief of police See SUSPECT, A13, Col. 5 SUSPECT, From Al witnessed the shooting, de- Reuter News Service is say- Washington-area police ra- scribed the assilant as a ing that the assailant was dios carried an alert for a in Prince George's, earlier white man with fair skin and wearing "Wallace buttons second suspect who report- told The Washington Post close cropped blond hair, and stuff all over him." A. edly was seen in Savage, Md. CBS film shown on televi- changing the license plates that the suspect was being who was dressed in a red, white and blue shirt with sion early last night showed on a blue Cadillac. Police held at Prince George's 'matching socks. the man wearing a large but- later canceled that alert, and General Hospital in Che- Billy Grammer, the coun- ton on the left lapel of his from Col. Smith's briefing, it verly. try music singer who travels coat. appeared that police were Rhodes s a I d, however, with Wallace, was quoted by Early in the evening, not looking for anyone else. that the suspect did not ap- pear to be injured. The U.S. Justice Depart- ment said the U.S. attorney in Baltimore would file charges of assault on a fed- eral officer and violation of te 1968 Civil Rights Act against Bremmer before the night was out. The Justice Department also said that the Secret Service had the .38 caliber snub-nosed revolver alleged- ly used in the shooting and "will be getting the bullets." Five shots were fired, according to a spokesman for the department, al- though other reports, said four shots. At the briefing at Holy Cross Hospital, Col. Smith said the .38-caliber weapon was purchased by bremmer in Milwaukee Jan. 13. Smith said Bremmer was identified by his driver's license. "There is no evi- dence there was anyone else involved, at this time," Smith said. Smith gave Bremmer's address at' 2433 Michigan St., Apt. 9, Mil- waukee. Smith said Bremmer's record showed that he was arrested Oct. 18, 1971, on charges of carrying a con- cealed weapon, but was con- victed in that case on a lesser charge. Smith said Bremmer was a white man, blond and 5 Associated Press feet 6. Washington Post Staff Cornelia Wallace, in a beige suit stained George Wallace of Alabama, comforts him Writer Lawrence Meyer, who with the blood of her husband, Gov. as others help unidentified man to feet. Campaign Into Disarray Shock, Sorrow Expressed by Foe, Friend By Stephen Green McGovern announced he would sus- Washington Post Staff Writer pend his campaigning until further notice. Shock and sorrow from Democratic and Humphrey- said he planned to stick to Republican leaders as well as ordinary his schedule to make a television broad- citizens followed the shooting in Laurel cast in Baltimore last night. The broad- yesterday of Alabama Gov. George C. cast was to be beamed to Maryland and Wallace. Michigan. At the White House, President Nixon "Oh my God," said Sen. Hubert Hum- sent one of his personal physicians, Dr. phrey (D-Minn.), Wallace's chief opponent William Lukash, an internist and a U.S. in today's Maryland primary as he re- Navy captain, to Holy Cross Hospital. ceived news of the shooting from two "I ask all Americans to join me in pray- Secret Service men who whispered in his ing for his (Wallace's) safety and full recovery and also for all the others who ear while he spoke at a day-care center were wounded in this senseless and tragic in Baltimore. incident," Mr. Nixon said. "All I can say is that it is a sad business. "Our nation has suffered more than It's getting so you don't know what's go- enough already from the intrusion of vio- ing to happen in our country any more in lence into its political processes. We must politics," Humphrey said as he suspended all stand together to eliminate this vicious campaigning and went to Holy Cross Hos- threat to our public life. We must not per- pital in Silver Spring where Wallace was mit the shadow of violence to fall over hospitalized. our country again," the President added. At the hospital, Humphrey, spent an As the President issued his statement hour with Mrs. Wallace. "What I've heard the White House announced that Sen. is encouraging. The governor has a lot of Edward Knnedy (D-Mass.) had accepted fight in him and he's showing it now. an offer of protection by the Secret Serv- Thank God, it's not fatal," Humphrey ive. told reporters. Kennedy, who has lost two brothers to Sen. George S. McGovern (D-S.D.), who assassins bulets, has continually insisted has been trying for an upset victory in the that he is not a candidate for the Demo- Maryland, contest, learned of the shooting cratic preidential nomination. while campaigning in Kalamazoo, Mich., and expressed shock. See REACT, A13, Col. 1

Secret Service. When in- REACT, From Al formed, he (the President) Jess Schwartz, 28, an attor- immediately expressed con- ney with the Environmenatl Kennedy said "my heart cern and asked for a full re- Protection Agency, said: "I and prayers go out to Gov. port." thought first about all the Wallace and to the members The President personally other assassinations and of his grief-stricken family. called Mrs. Wallace at her how sick and sad the whole Once again, democracy in husband's bedside and of- thing is. I'm not a Wallace America has been scarred fered his hope and prayers supporter ... but I can't by senseless and unforgive- for the governor's recovery, help think that the Wallace able violence." the White House said. people, like the Kennedy "I am saddened beyond Ziegler said that Mrs. people and the supporters of measure that tragedy has Wallace said that her hus- Martin Luther King, de- again stained and darkened band was conscious at the . Mvve to have their voice the process we use to seleet time the President phoned heard and that the country our political leaders," Ken- and said she was optimistic is really in great danger nedy added. about his condition. when those voices can't be Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy, Washington area residents heard." whose husband was fatally also expressed shock at the Sen. Edmund S. Muskie shot four years ago, called shooting. (D-Me.), who has withdrawn Mrs. Wallace at the hospital "It just makes you wonder as an active candidate for after learning of the shoot- ,what's what. They shoot the the Democratic presidental ing, according to a family liberals, they shoot the radi- nomination issued a state- spokesman. cals. It makes you wonder Mr. Nixon learned of the what's going on," said James shooting from his assistant, Lampkin, 33, a District of R. H. Haldeman. Ronald Zie- Columbia drug addiction gler, the President's press counselor and part-time cab .secretary said the White ' driver, interviewed at 15th House "received word and M Streets NW. shortly before the bulletin t At Montgomery Mall, (at 4:10 p.m.) through the ment from his Bethesda ican as apple pie. One might home. be tempted to say this in "It is a tragedy for all of this case: the chicken came us that the peaceful opera- home to roost. But that tion of the democratic proc- would be unkind." ess has again been inter- "It would be a tragedy if rupted by an act of vio- Wallace died," Innis added. lence," he said. However, he said, "if he Rep. Lawrence J. Hogan lives, it also would be a trag- (R-Md.), whose congressional edy for him to become a na- district includes Laurel, said tional hero elected to the he knows now "how the peo- presidency on sympathy ple of Dallas and Los Ange- votes." les and Memphis must have Gus Hall, chairman of the felt." United States Communist "On behalf of all the peo- Party, also deplored the ple of Prince George's in my shooting. "...the politics of district, I want to say how terror can never serve to ad- terribly disappointed and vance the interests of prog- shocked we are that this ter- ress," he said. rible thing happened in our Sen. James B. Allen (D- home county," Hogan said. Ala.) said "the attempted as- Maryland Gov. Marvin sassination was a cruel and Mandel, a Democrat, who dastardly act . ." Allen also went to the hospital, said it is "ironic that the said "it is time that we put a leading advocate of law and stop to this kind of senseless order in the presidential tragedy." race should be the victim of Sen. Philip A. Hart, a civil such a criminal stroke." rights leader, whose views "America must be made qn race relations place him safe from law violaters and at the opposite political criminals who place them- spectrum from Wallace, said selves above the law and that "every decent Ameri- who would seek to strike can will be horrified by this down a man who entertains and I join all of them in and expresses views differ- hoping fervently for the ent from their own," he governor's recovery." said. Sen. Charles Mathias (R- "We have no use for Gov. Md.) said he bitterly con- Wallace or his views but we demns and regrets "this vio- are unalterably opposed to lation of Maryland's tradi- violence," said John Morsell, tion of toleration. The bul- assistant executive director lets that hit George Wallace of the NAACP. were propelled by madness "Black Americans have and cowardice and not only suffered from this kind of woundPd the governor but violence too many times to shattered a heritage of three react with anything but hor- centuries." ror and sorrow," Morsell Sen. J. Glenn Ball (R-Md.) said. said "it is a cruel form of in Roy Innis, head of the tolerance that denies a man Congress of Racial Equality, the right to express his said that "political assassi- views while participating in nation is becoming as Amer- a free and open election." 1.6 Million Eligible To Vote in Maryland More than 1.6 million registered Maryland voters are eligible to go to the polls today to vote in the state's first presidential primary since 1064. The state legislature abolished the presidential primary for the 1968 election but then reihstated it for this year. The polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. In the Democratic primary, attentitin is focused on the presidential race, where a total of 11 candidates are on the ballot. At stake are 53 delegates to the Democratic National Convention. President Nixon and two other candidates are on the Republican ballot, and 16 convention delegates will be selected. Under Maryland law, there can be no "cross- overs," as only registered Republicans and Democrats can vote for the presidential candidates and they, vote in their own party's primary. In addition, all eight of the state congressional district have primary contests for representatives in Congress, and Montgomery County has a primary for members of the board of education. Shooting Throws 1972 Issue of Violence Again on Center Stage

By Haynes Johnson paign speech in 1912, he is likely to receive Washington Post Staff Writer an outpouring of sympathy from the Once again a gunman's bullet has dis- voters. rupted the American policial process and His deathe would leave his follewers lead- thrown a critical presidential campaign erless and have a profound impact on the into disarray. kinds of support given to every other can- Like the earlier shots that felled the didate. Kennedys and Martin Luther King Jr. the Beyond the specific, if unmeasurable, bullets that struck George Corley Wallace effects of the Wallace shooting, this latest of Alabama yesterday in Maryland have ir- assassination attempt of a major American revocably altered the politics of this pres- figure throws the entire political process idential year. into serious fragmentation. His shooting will overshadow the actions The immediate reaction of men of of every other candidate from now until all parties underscored that sense of a na- the Nvember election. And once again it tional tragedy, compounded because it has forces forward onto the center stage the happened so often in the recent political most disturbing of all American issues— past. violence. When word of the shooting reached George McGovern, campaigning in Kala- After more than a decade of prominence "hope and pray for the speedy recovery on the American scene, Georg Wallace yes- mazoo, Mich., he asked his audience to terday stood on the verge of gaining one of of Gov. Wallace and say a prayer for our his greatest political triumphs. . own country." He was favored to win presidential pri- McGovern added: "I must say I'm maries in both Maryland and Michigan to- shocked by this savage act. If we've got day in states that have gone Democratic in to the point in this country where a po- the last three presidential elections. litical figure can't express his views on Now no one will ever know to What ex- the issues of the day, that he can't seek tene the ballots to be cast are affected by the presidency of this country without this new American tragedy. being shot, then I tremble' for the future If Wallace survives, as did Theodore of our nation." Roosevelt when he was shot during a cam- See IMPACT, A13, Col. 1 IMPACT, From Al bullet which should deter- ington politician was reflect- In Washington, former At- mine America's destiny." ing on the sudden changes torney General John As in other moments of N. that can affect a political Mitchell struck the same national horror, there was a clear drawing together of figure. "Twenty-four hours," theme: he said to a friend, "is a "This sad and frightening those who represent widely divergent views. "Th6e's a long time in the life of a occurence raises again the time for political discussion" politician." strange sense of having wit- but I don't think the time is It also can be a long time in the life of a country. nessed this all before, of when Gov. Wallace is in the hospital fighting for his The 1972 political year having seen blind and irra- began with hopes that it tional hatred strike out in life," said a spokesman for would this barbaric manner. the Democratic National be unlike the bitter, Committee. divisive past. The war that "It is a shock to all of us, had so dominated the na- I believe, that the American And a black congressman, tion's political debates four political process now sub- Charles C. Diggs Jr. of De- troit, spoke for many others years ago seemed to be dim- jects political leaders to inishing. The riots that had such personal danger that it when he said: "This is a frightening incident that scarred the country had sub- deprives the American peo- sided or disappeared. The ple of direct access to those should be the object of concern of anyone who believes demonstrations that made leaders." political life unpleasant if And from Russell Long of in free speech. Regardless of our differences, we should not untenable were # thing Louisiana, whose father of the past. So, it seemed, Huey was cut down by an close ranks for the protection of freedom of speech on were the scenes of scream- assassin, came a similiar ing crowds surrounding a thought. the part of public figures." Transcending all the fallen political leader. "Gov. Wallace," he said, But in less than a week all "is another victim of those words was an inarticulate sense of shock and a sad that has passed. who do not understand that The shooting of George human beings must learn to recognition that Americans have lived through all this Wallace of Alabama came live together peacefully. It exactly a week after Presi- is the ballot rather than the before. Just last weekend a Wash- dent Nixon somberly announced the mining of North Vietnamese ports and when the Democrats con- increased bombing raids vene at Miami Beach in which raised the spectre of July. a direct confrontation with Kennedy himself issued the Soviet Union. this statement:. "My heart Protests, demonstrations and prayers go out to Gov. Wallace and to the members and emotional debates have of his grief-stricken family. followed in the wake of Once again, democracy in those steps. America has been scarred Now, a nation already un- by senseless and unforgiva- ble violence. I am saddened certain and fearful has been beyond measure that trag- subjected to another act of edy has again stained and voilence that -tears at the darkened the process we, use fundamental stability of the to select our policial leaders." land. The nation was reminded In purely political terms; anew of other scenes of the Wallace shooting raises trauma and memories of a number of imponderables. grieving widows when Ethel What will happen to the le- Kennedy, widow of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, called, gions that have followed Mrs. Wallace at the hospital him so loyally? If he sur- as-soon as she heard about vives, will his shooting lead the shooting. to a large sympathy write-in Then there were questions about what might happen to vote in pivotal California? the delegates Wallace al- -Which of the other two lead- ready has won in his cam- ing Democratic amdiates- paign this year. Before the McGovern and Hubert Hum- shooting yesterday, it ap- phrey—will stand to pick up peared Wallace would go to the most support from the. Miami Beach in command of Wallace constituency? some 325 to 350 delegates. Already, the politicians That represents a vital 10 are going through their in- per cent of the 3,016 dele- evitable—and private-I.-spec- gates whose support may be ulations of -the impact on essential for anyone to win their futures.''' the nomination. In the McGovern camp, These were among the po- for instance, there is fear litical questions raised by that the shooting somehow the latest act of a man with might be held irrationally a gun. against their candidate. One But of all those speaking of the McGovern strategists out, publicly and privately, noted that a radio report of perhaps no one expressed a the shooting said McGovern more basic concern—and supporters were present at \basic question—than a the rally, and a wire service woman who called this story made the same point. newspaper moments after A Humphrey aide specu- hearing news of Wallace's lated that the shooting could shooting yesterday. have one of two results— "Please don't just say, in sympathy flowing to Wal- bold, black headlines, that lace or a recoiling by the Wallace has been shot," she public against a candidacy said quietly. "I am not a that is associated with in- supporter of Gov. Wallace, tense controversy. but what I want to know, All of the politicians im- what we all want to know, is mediately began raising why this happens?" questions about violence af- Hers is the central Ameri- fecting the remainder of the can question. As in the past, campaign, and adding to the no one has an answer to it. move for stricter security and gun control legislation. And the shooting inevita- bly brought fresh attention on the last of the Kennedy brothers. The private con- sensus of those interviewed was that Sen. Edward M. (Ted) Kennedy now defi- nitely would be removed from speculation as a possi- ble compromise nominee

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U, U, Photo by Mabel Hobart. Hobart. Mabel by Photo A 12 Tuesday, May 16, 1972 THE WASHINGTON POST Many Have Been Targets Of Assassins By Karlyn Barker Washington Post Staff Writer The attempted assassina- in 1933. Chicago Mayor tion yesterday of Alabama Anton J. Cermak,. who Was Gov. George Wallace, coin- with the President-elect, was ing just four years after killed by shots intended for Robert F. Kennedy was FDR, who was not hurt. killed during the 1968 presi- Another assassination vic- dential primary campaign, tim during the Roosevelt was another reminder of the era Was Sen. Huey P. Long, hazards faced by American , the Louisiana populist whose politicians and public fig- political career resembles.

ures. that of Wallace. In addition to Kennedy and civil rights leader the Long was killed in the ro- , Rev.. Dr. Martin Luther tunda of the State Capitol at King Jr. wilt) was slain a Baton Rouge in 1935 at a month earlier, assassin's bul- time when he was being lets have struck down–four mentioned as a presidential American presidents—John possibility. The one-time F. Kennedy in 1963, William Louisiana farm boy was con- McKinley in 1901, James A. sidered a virtual dictator in Garfield in 1881 and Abra- the state, having consoli- ham Lincoln in 1865. dated his strength earlier as Three presidents—Theo- governor. dore Roosevelt, Franklin D. The 1960s saw the greatest Roosevelt and Harry S. Tru- incidence of political assassi- man—escaped assassination nations in• the nation's his- attempts. Teddy Roosevelt, tory and prompted sociolo- the Bull Moose Party's can- gists and -presidential com- ' dilate in 1912, was shot but missions to explore the un- not fatally wounded. derlying cause of violence in Mr. Truman escaped in- the country. jury in 1950 when a group of In addition to the Kenne- assassins attempted to storm dys and Dr. King, the list of Blair House, the presiden- assassination victims in- tial guest house where the cluded civil rights activist President was living during Medgar Evers in 1963, black extensive renovation of the nationalist Malcolm X in White House. 1965, and George Lincoln FDR was fired on by a Rockwell, American Nazi would-be assassin in Miami Party leader, in 1967. Governor Is' Reported Paralyzed Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was undergoing exploratory surgery at Holy Cross Hospital in Montgom- ery County last night amid reports that he is paralyzed from the waist down. Doc- tors were seeking to determine the extent of his gunshot wounds and any internal bleeding. A doctor who works on the hospital staff said Wal- lace was paralyzed when he was taken into surgery. "He was not able to move at all the moment he entered the operating room," the doctor said. "He was paraplegic when he went in." Another doctor inside the Silver Spring hospital but not in the operating room said Wallace "felt no sensation from the waist down." Thomas Burke, a hitspital spokesman, said shortly after 6 p.m. that Wallace's condition is "stable in that there is no immediate danger of his expiring." See HOSPITAL, Al2, Col. 1 lace campaign volunteer, Dora Thompson of 510659th Wallace, in Hospital, , Ave., Rogers Heights, ,1VId., was shot once in the leg. No, further details were im- Reportedly Paralyzed mediately available. Zarvos underwent surgery HOSPITAL, From Al at Leland Memorial Hospital in Riverdale at 7:45 p.m. "But," added Burke, "he's room at 4:30 p.m. until the Officials listed his condition certainly not out of danger. surgery began. as "satisfactory and stable" That's why we're operating." Sister Marie identified the and that he was shot_ in the the hospital's surgery rooms doctors as Dr. Joseph right side of the neck. The At 7:55 p.m., Billy Joe Schanno, a vascular sur- bullet lodged in his jaw. Camp, Wallace's press sec- geon; Dr. Peabody; Dr. John The trooper was identified retary, said that all vital Haberlin, a general surgeon Dr. Balla= Perez, not a as Capt. E. C. Dothard of signs remain strong. He Montgomery,, Ala., the gov- said doctors told him the surgeon but a specialist in internal medicine. ernor's chief, bodyguard. governor's blood pressure Maryland State Police pli was excellent. At 1:30 p.m., Gov. Wal- lace's condition was consid- pertneendent Themai Doctors say they have ered "critical but stable." Smith said Dothard was "not controlled internal bleeding, Burke said there were "sev- in too bad shape.", their first priority. They eral gunshot wounds in the Emmett W. Eaton, 'exece- have determined there was shoulder and abdomen." tive director of the Alabama no: liver damage. The U.S. Justice Depart- Commission on- Aging and Wallace was wheeled into ment said Wallace's assail- a Wallace "troubleshooter," of 5:50 p.m. from the emer- ant used a .38-caliber snub- rode with the governor to gency room, 'where officials nose revolver. the hospital.' said he had been awake and Gov. Wallace was awake He said Wallace bled all speaking with his wife. Wal- and speaking from the time the way from the Laurel lace was shot about 4 p.m. he was taken to the hospital Shopping Center , in Prince Hospital administrator until he was taken into sur- Sister Helen Marie said a George's County, to Holy gerY- Cross. team of four surgeons and a The surgery itself, which specialist in internal medi- took place in the hospital's "All the wounds were on cine began exploratory sur- "Code Blue" room (the best the right side," said Eaton. gery shortly after 6 p.m. It looked like four holes but surigcally equipped room in they aren't sure." Eaton' said Ninety minutes later he the herr:I:tap was delayed an was still in surgery. Wallace asked him "how low estimated 25 minutes to a- down is the bullet." One of President Nixon's wait a neurosurgeon. personal physicians, Dr. Wil- According to Laurel Res- In an interview with The liam Laukash, was also ex- cue Squad and hospital of- Washington Post, Dr. Bryan pected to join the surgical ficials, a secret service agent, Warren, a physician who at- team. Officials said the tended Wallaceat the scene, President dispatched. Dr. Nick Zarvos, was also shot the Laurel Shopping Center, Laukash to the hospital lin- and an Alabama State Troop- said: "He was lying on his mediately. er, Gov. Wallace's bodyguard, 'back, perfectly conscious Hospital officials said at 6 was shot in the abdomen. and lucid, calm . His jack- p.m. they were still uncer- Officials also said a Wal- et was open. .I pulled his tain exactly how many times shirt up and there was a Wallace had been shot. gunshot wound in his lower Burke quoted one of the right chest. It looked like physicians, Dr. Joseph Pea- it might have' been a .32 or body, a chest and vascular a .38 (caliber bullet). I kneW surgeon, as saying shortly it had to hit the lower part before the surgery began of the lung and liver. Net that "this is exploratory sur- knowing which direction it gery because of the spinal went, that was all I knew." involvement. There's some "There was no external indication of internal bleed- bleeding at the time," said ing, probably from an ab- Dr. Warren. "His pulse was dominal wound, which is the good. He was perfectly con- most serious." , scious, 'rational and perfect- Wallace received at least - ly calm. I knew there was in- one pint of blood while in ternal hemorrhaging. the the emergency room. The best thing to do .was to • get primary aim of the explora- him to an emergenty room., tory surgery, said Burke, We got him inte, a station was to determine the loca- wagon. He , (Wallace) said' tion and extent of the inter- `I'm having -trouble breath- nal bleeding. ing , I could fees no The team of doctorsall %Ilse then . . I :was-- right worked on the stricken gov- worried then . ';. ernor from the time he was wheeled into the emergency The Laurel resole squad receives a eau •4rom we. Secret Service at 4:01 p.m., asking for several ambu- lances to respond to the shopping center immediately, according to Squad Sgt. Dennis Lunsford. Lunsford, said four ambu- lances were dispatched, two of which were used. Lunsford said the Secret Service did not describe the nature of the emergency. He said that when the first ambulance arrived at the shopping center at 4:04 p.m. Wallace was being adminis- tered first aid bydoctor,4 identified as Dr. Wa rren, 76, of Laurel, who had attended the rally as a spectator. This story was written by Washington Post Staff Writ- er Jon Katz and was based on reports filed by staff writers Henry Allen, Stuart Auer- bach, Donald Baker, Carl Bernstein, LaBarabara Bow- man, Noel Epstein, Thomas O'Toole, Sally Quinn and Nancy Scannell. ..043i;4"

Associated Press Gov. Wallace rests on deck of station wagon just moments after he was shot yesterday In Laurel. Gunman Wounds 3 Others in Party By William Greider Washington Post Staff Writer Gov. George Wallace of Alabama, campaigning across Maryland for the presidency, was shot and seriously wounded yesterday by a young assailant dressed in red, white and blue. The 52-year-old governor, in his third presidential campaign, was shot at close range following a speech at a Laurel shopping center. Wounded in the chest and stomach, Wallace was par- tially paralyzed by "spinal complications" but a spokesman at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring said the governor's condition is "stable in that there is no immediate danger of his expiring." At 7:55 p.m., the governor's, press secretary said Wallace's vital signs are strong, his blood pressure is excellent, internal bleeding has been controlled and there is no liver damage. Three persons traveling with Wallace were also wounded in the shooting. Police immediately apprehended a crewcut, blond-haired man whom the Justice Department last night identified as Arthur Bremmer, born in Milwaukee, Wisc., on Aug. 21, 1950. The man was in the rally audience, dressed in a red, white and blue shirt and socks, wearing a Wallace campaign button. He had been seen earlier in the day at a Wallace rally in Wheaton. Gov. Wallace's rivals expressed horror at the shooting of the fourth prominent American political figure to be gunned down in a decade. President Nixon swiftly ordered extra security precautions, dispatching Secret Service agents to guard Rep. Shirley Chisholm, a previously un- protected candidate, and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, a non- candidate whose brothers both died by assassination. Wallace was cut down about 44,1qA141-6,,b A with well-wishers on the parking Jot of tie Latter ping Center, about 30 miles from Washington: The governor, coatless under the afternoon sun, fell backwards on the pavement, red stains on his blue shirt. His wife, Cor- nelia, rushed to his side, crying and cradling his head in her hands. Her beige suit was smeared with his blood. Eyewitnesses gave conflicting accounts of four to six shots fired at Wallace. Wounded with the governor were: his personal body guard, Alabama State Trooper Capt. E. C. Dothard, hit in the stomach; Dora Thompson, a Wallace campaign volunteer, 5106 59th Avenue, Rogers Heights, Md., and hit in the leg, a Secret Service agent, Nick Zarvos. See WALLACE, Al2, Col. 7 Gov. Wallace. Shot At Rally in Laurel WALLACE, From Al One eyewitness in the crowd, Jack Ingram, 27, of Hunt-, -ingtown, sMd., described the encounter: "I Wa$ standing to the governor's right;trying to get my hand in there," Ingram said,,as. Wallace moved down the rope cordon, shaking hands. The alleged assailant, said Ingram, was among those trying to get Gov. Wallace to approach close enough for a personal greeting. "He kept yelling, 'Hey George! Hey George!'" Ingram recounted, then: "The rum stuck the gun right in his stomach and fired." Dr. Bryan Warren, 76, of Laurel, a spectator at the rally, heard the shots and went to Wallace's side. "He was lying on his side," Dr. Warren said, "pelrfectly conscious and lucid, calm . . . I pulled his shirt IT and there was a gunshot wound in his lower right chest. looked like it might have been a .32 or a .38 (caliber). I knew it had to hit the lower part of the lung and liver." At first, policemen and aides rushed the governor to a nearby staff station wagon, then the ambulance arrived. "Right then," said Dr. Warren, "the governor said, 'I'm having trouble breathing,' and I felt his pulse again and I could feel no pulse. I was quite worried but there was nothing to do except let the ambulance take him away." According to a Laurel rescue officer,- Gov. Wallace was conscious throughout the ride to the hospital. "He was very calm, he was in pain," said Sgt. Dennis Lunsford. "All he said was that he hurt." A hospital spokesman would give no details on the extent of Wallace's paralysis. A doctor inside the hospital, but not in the operating room where Wallace underwent surgery, reported that the governor "felt no sensation from the waist down?' A second doctor said, "He was not able to -move at all the moment he entered the operating room. He was paraplegic when he went in." The governor's press aide, Billy Joe Camp, said there were three major wounds, in the abdomen and chest. At the scene of the shooting, a vast L-shaped shopping mall, the crowd of 1,000 turned from warm applause to sudden panic, screaming and running at the sound of gunfire—"like firecrackers," the witnesses said, sharp and loud. An officer instantly knocked the gun from the hands of the attacker and a swarm of eight or 10 Prince George's County police jumped on him and rushed him to a squad car. He was roughed up, slightly, according to the county prosecutor, but pot seriously injured. A CBS TV camera crew, filming the Laurel rally, found it had a film of a blond assailant approaching Gov. Wal- lace with gun in hand, firing five shots. Until now, Gov. Wallace was riding a new crest of in fluence in his maverick political career. He had won three presidential primaries so far in 1972, was favored to win today in Maryland and Michigan, and is sure to have at least 200 delegates at the Democratic National Convention in July. Wallace was harassed by hecklers—and a few rocks and tomatoes were thrown—during his four days of MaryAnd campaigning over the past two weeks, but polls and politicians figured he would probably finish first. As a volatile personality, he probably had a bit more protection than the other presidential candidates, since several Alabama troops were traveling with him. • On the platform, he was protected by a three-sided armor-plated lectern, decorated with bunting. At Laurel, someone added a bouquet of long-stemmed roses. At least two Prince George's policemen were stationed on the shopping center rooftop. surveying for potential sniper, when Gov. Wallace's caravan arrived about 3:15 p.m., fresh from another rally at the Wheaton Plaza Shopping Center in Montgomery County. As many as 50 policemen patrolled the rally site, set up in a roped-off area in front of the Equitable Trust Bank, which sits in the middle of the parking lot. Before a larger crowd earlier at Wheaton Plaza, Wal- lace had been heckled persistently by young people. Some- one threw a couple of tomatoes and Wallace answered ob- scene chants with: "Your vocabulary is mighty limited if that's all you can say is nasty words like that." At the earlier rally, the governor retold his now-familiar remarks about crime and the nation's capital, words which rang heavily later: "It's a sad day in our country when you go to Washington, D.C., and can't go 100 feet from your hotel. It's not even safe in the shadow of the White House." At Laurel, the -mood was more pleasant and Wallace was more relaxed. He scoffed at the minor heckling: "I've got a book I want to give you," he said in a standard re- tort, "How to Behave in a Crowd." Dozens of Wallace posters waved in the crowd of sub- urban Maryland followers. Little children scampered around the edges and pretty young volunteers wearing Wallace skimmers, red blazers and white slacks, passed around buckets for campaign contributions. Billy Grammer and the Travel on toys played the "Un- der the Double Eagle" march and the candidate mounted the two-foot-high rostrum. He took off his black raincoat and handed it to an aide, then launched into his favorite subject, school busing, including, a well-received denuncia- tion of The Washington Post. "There's more pluperfect hypocrisy in Washington, D.C., and I mean ;among the politicians, than anywhere else in the United States," Wallace said the crowd cheered. He seemed to lose his voice for a moment and paused to clear his throat, then apologized. "It's been a long campaign," the candidate said. Wallace touched on other themes—bringing the troops home from Vietnam, "senseless and asinine" busing and then closed with his slogan: "You can send them a mes- sage." "You can give 'em a case of St. Vitus Dance, and you know how to do it—vote for George Wallace tomorrow," he concluded. The crowd roared warmly. Wallace stepped back from the lectern and blew a kiss to the crowd, then gave a snappy salute, smiling broadly. The sun broke from behind clouds as he finished at about 3:55 p.m. He handed his jacket to an aide, then re- sponded to the spectators pressing in closer, begging for a handshake or. autograph. Flanked by security men, Wallace went off to his right and began autographing Wallace record albums. The crowd on the left side of the platform—including the assailant—began shouting: "Over here, over here!" The governor's aides guided him across to the lefthand side where as many as 40 people pressed forward. Then came the shots, first one, a quick pause, then two more, then maybe one or two more. "He clutched himself," said Phyllis Chambers, 9609 Meadowlark Ave., Upper Marlboro. "I rememner going toward him and his wife was there and he clutched himself." The other three victims, all standing close by, were either hit directly or by ricochet. The Secret Service agent, Zarvos, was shot in the right side of the neck with the bullet lodged behind his jaw. He was reported in satisfactory condition at Leland Memorial Hospital in River- dale where he was undergoing surgery.

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