Forcing Kids To Watch History Made (WAS Where were you? (Dallas check-in))

[Cindy C. <cindysphinx@comcast.net>]

dradamsapple wrote:

> As I am also an ancient one, and the memory seems to be the first 
>to  go, was George Wallace actually assassinated?  

Whoops!  

I tossed around the word "assassinated" rather loosely there, didn't 
I?  "Assassinated" does equate with murder, so I shouldn't have 
phrased it that way.  Now that I think about it, though, I have no 
idea what you call it when someone tries to kill a person for 
political reasons but the victim survives.  "Attempted 
assassination," I guess?  I always figured that would be what 
happened to Gerald Ford -- firing and missing entirely.

Anyway, to make it up to you, I googled George Wallace and can 
confirm that he was, er, almost assassinated on May 15, 1972.  He 
was shot 5 times while campaigning for president and was confined to 
a wheelchair.  He died in 1998.

Cindy -- who also has vivid memories of Nixon's defeat of Humphrey 
in 1968 because it was announced over the school PA system and many 
people in South Carolina were very unhappy with Nixon and still 
smarting from JFK's assassination