So, Wallace turned heads when he publicly apologized and pleaded for forgiveness for his segregationist past after a 1972 assassination attempt at ... “And we loved George for his enthusiasms.” ...

George Wallace angrily announced that he would ... In the years after the assassination attempt, Wallace's attitude toward racial issues underwent a dramatic change. The man who had once vowed ...

August 25: George Corley Wallace is born in Clio ... his arrest as "An Assassin's Diary," showed that Bremer's assassination attempt was not motivated by politics, but by a desire to become ...