First, the brush with death. It upended Wallace’s life and forced him to end his 1972 bid for the presidency. It also left a pugnacious man who had been a boxer in his youth and was proud of his ...

An assassin’s bullet couldn’t knock George Wallace out of politics − but it made him seek redemption.

So, Wallace turned heads when he publicly apologized and pleaded for forgiveness for his segregationist past after a 1972 assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Maryland left him paralyzed ...

On the CBS News program “Face the Nation,” March 4, 1965, Alabama Gov. George Wallace rejects charges of police brutality in Selma, Ala., and spotlights police use of force in Northern cities.

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George McMillan, who nearly beat Wallace and revitalized Birmingham with music, dies at 81. Updated: ; Apr. 19, 2025, 3:08 p.m. | Published: ; Apr. 19, 2025, 12:25 p.m.