Wallace vows to stay in the race after shooting
George C. Wallace, wounded at a Maryland rally, remains in critical but hopeful condition with multiple gunshot injuries. Doctors report paralysis possibly temporary while Wallace vows to continue his presidential bid, supported by campaign staff and family.
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Silver Spring
George C. Wallace
Wallace
Alabama
Laurel
Arthur Herman Bremer
Milwaukee
Ress
Joseph Schanno
Maryland
Michigan
Cornelia
Holy Cross Hospital
Schanno
Wallace campaign rides protest wave toward pivotal day
Governor George C. Wallace presses his presidential bid as protests surge and his supporters rally. Analysts note Wallace aims to capitalize on the renewed energy on a day expected to mark a high point in his Alabama campaign and national attention.
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Walter R. Mears
Associated Press
Washington
George C. Wallace
Alabama
Wallace fights on in Democratic race after shooting
Wallace gains sympathy and could still affect the Democratic nominating process from a hospital bed. With 210 votes he remains a political force as McGovern leads with 358 and Humphrey with 24114, while his followers seek to keep delegates from voiding his motion at the Miami Beach convention.
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Maryland
Michigan
Wallace
George McGovern
Hubert H. Humphrey
Laurel
Oregon
Rhode Island
Florida
Tennessee
North Carolina
Wisconsin
Pennsylvania
Billy Grammer Prays After Wallace Shooting in Maryland
Grand Ole Opry star Billy Grammer, a Franklin County native and Wallace campaigner, knelt on the Wallace bandstand to pray for the governor and the man who shot him. He helped restore order during the melee and spoke of faith and support as he traveled with Wallace since February.
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Bud Farrar
Southern Illinoisan
George Wallace
Maryland
Grand Ole Opry
Billy Grammer
Franklin County
Wallace
Grammer
Benton and
Lesser
Ruth Burzynski
Bend City
Nashville
Tenn
Grand “Ole Opry
Illinois
Shultz to be nominated Connally quits treasury post
President Nixon announced that Secretary of the Treasury John B. Connally will resign after 18 months. He will nominate George P. Shultz to succeed Connally as Treasury secretary with Caspar Weinberger to move from OMB to lead the budget office. Connally said politics did not factor in his decision and did not rule out a future run as Nixon’s vice president.
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Washington
Nixon
Secretary of the Treasury
John B. Connally
White House
George P. Shultz
Labor
Office of Management and Budget
Connally
Treasury
Shultz
OMB
Caspar Weinberger
Air headquarters hit as Bombers cut enemy pipeline
U S fighter bombers struck North Vietnam to destroy the air defense headquarters at Bach Mai south of Hanoi and sever the pipeline feeding tanks and supply trucks on the northern front. The six page communique says nearly 2000 strikes in the past week damaged the Bach Mai complex and notes air strikes averaging 250 per day in the intensified campaign ordered by President Nixon to choke supply routes to the south.
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North Vietnam
Hanoi
South Vietnam
U. S. Command
Dam
Bach Mai
Nixon
Electrical Woes Delay Papers In Local Press
An electrical failure in a plate making machine delayed Monday’s Southern Miinoisan by about three hours. Circulation manager Frank G. Aldridge urged customers who did not receive the issue to contact carriers or the paper, apologizing for the inconvenience.
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Frank G. Aldridge
Aldridge
Woman hurls sons from Los Angeles overpass
Police said Anna L. Johnson, 32, and her son Daniel 9 were seriously injured after she threw them from an overpass onto Harbor Freeway lanes and then jumped. John 5 was critically injured with possible brain damage. Johnson was arrested for investigation of attempted murder with no motive established.
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Los Angeles
Harbor Freeway
Anna L. Johnson
Daniel
John
Bond set at 200000 for George Wallace shooting suspect
Arthur Bremer, 21, of Milwaukee, was ordered held on 200000 bond after being charged with shooting Alabama Gov George Wallace and a Secret Service agent. U S Magistrate Clarence Goetz read the formal charges as Bremer, who declined a court appointed attorney, sought representation by the American Civil Liberties Union via Dan Lipsitz. Bremer appeared in court in a yellow shirt and hospital pajamas, led by U S marshals, with a tense stance during the proceedings.
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Bremer
U. S
Clarence Goetz
Baltimore
Wallace
Secret Service
Nicholas Zarvos
Zarvos
Alabama
E. C. Dothard
Dora Thompson
Holy Cross
Billy Joe Camp
Camp
Maryland
Michigan
Emmett W. Eaton
George
Eaton
Mrs.Wallace
Arthur Herman Bremer
George C. Wallace
Milwaukee
Wis
American Civl Liberties Union
Dan Lipsitz
Weather and court remarks mix with Bremer interview
The forecast shows a warm spell with highs in the low 80s through Thursday to Saturday. In court Bremer answered yes when asked if he understood the charges and said he cannot afford counsel, claiming his worth is under $200 with only a motor vehicle as property.
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Bremer
Goetz
Lipsitz
ACLU
Strawberry pickers surge into Southern Illinois patches
Strawberry patches in Franklin and Union counties see a rush of pick your own activity. Prices range from 20 to 50 cents a quart with some berries priced higher for self picked fruit. Cobden and West Frankfort are noted as major patches with a two to two and a half week peak season. Labor shortages have reduced production compared with seven to eight years ago.
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Illinois
Carlos Norton
The
Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange
Franklin
Union
Norton
Cobden
Frankfort
Union County
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Miami Beach
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Saigon
Baltimore, Md
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