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(Studio) Alabama Governor George Wallace removed from critical list though still partly paralyzed. Maryland and Michigan primaries held today; Wallace hopes to win.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Silver Spring, MD) Wallace family (children, mother-in-law) come and go from hospital. Much tension and apprehension have also come and gone. Security remains tight. Wallace sleeps; his wife Cornelia is in nearby room on 7th floor, Holy Cross Hospital. 1 bullet still lodged near Governor's spinal column. Me may be permanently paralyzed from hips down. [Hospital spkmn., Tom BURKE - says ultimately Governor will require further surgery for removal of bullet in spinal cord area.] [Son, George WALLACE, JR. - says father is much better today. Says all public figures' families think such things might happen. If anyone could overcome this, his daddy can.] Wallace campaign manager Charles Snider says campaign will continue until Governor says otherwise. Govs. wife will make speeches. Wallace news secretary says Governor will go to Democratic national conv., in wheelchair if necessary.
REPORTER: David Dick
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(Studio) Man accused of shooting Governor Wallace, 21-yr.-old Arthur Bremer, held under tight security outside Baltimore, MD.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Towson, MD) Activities continue normally at Baltimore County jail despite presence of publicized prisoner. Bremer arraigned on charges of violating Federal code in wounding Governor Wallace and Federal agent Zarvos. Normal security bolstered with addition of FBI agents and Federal marshals. Wednesday, Bremer will be returned to Fed court in Baltimore, MD, for pre-trial examination. For initial hearing, Bremer was handcuffed and heavily guarded. Says his net worth is less than $200; requests attorney be provided by ACLU. Bond set at $200,000. Bremer then whisked out of court house through back of building Guards won't discuss prisoner. Memory of Jack Ruby's assault on Lee Harvey Oswald still fresh.
REPORTER: Hal Walker Artist: Howard Brodie
(Studio) Bremer charged under Federal Civil Rights Act of 1968, of interfering with candidate seeking elected office, and with assault of Federal officer, Secret Serviceman who was wounded. 10 year prison sentence on each charge, life imprisonment if death occurs. Bremer had been following Wallace for some time. police in Kalamazoo, Michigan, questioned him before Wallace rally Saturday (Wheaton, MD) Bremer appeared at another Maryland rally yesterday and appears in film.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senator Birch Bayh says .38-caliber pistol used in Wallace shooting would have been banned by gun-control legislation now stalled in Senate Bayh calls emergency session of juvenile delinquency subcommittee to attempt to get legislation moving. Treasury Department reports it took 10 minute to trace gun to owner due to 1968 gun-control law. Wallace has opposed gun-control legislation as penalizing honest citizens, as laws would be ignored by criminals.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Soviet news agency Tass reports shooting of Wallace, does not comment. Other foreign newspapers general hold act typifies sickness in American Britain's liberal "Guardian" says American shown to be deeply divided and frustrated society, infected by violence.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Democrat John Connally resigns as Secretary Treasury
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(White House) Connally will be replaced by Budget Director George Shultz. Casper Weinberger replaces Shultz. [NIXON - says when going is toughest, Connally is at his best.] [CONNALLY - avoids questions on his candidacy for VP, but will remain politically active.] Nixon walks Connally to Treasury building amidst tourists, unworried by recent events.
REPORTER: Robert Pierpoint
(Studio) Nixon overrode objections of Secret Service agents when he mingled with sidewalk crowd.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) proponents of end-the-war amendment admit Senator has watered down plan by adding requirement for cease-fire to action cutting off funds for war when POW's returned. Senator Byrd says action backs Nixon on his trip to Russia.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) American jets bomb North Vietnam air defense cmd. headquarters at Bach Mai Airfield, 3 mi. south of Hanoi. Russian technicians may have been inside. Vinh also bombed, at pipe line leading to DMZ. Associated Press reports Russian cruiser and 3 destroyers in South China Sea, 200 mile from Danang, South Vietnam, 300 from North Vietnam. Pentagon reports 1/2 25 foreign ships en route to North Vietnam have changed course.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Attempted assassination may have created large sympathy vote for George Wallace in Maryland and Michigan, but CBS poll in Michigan shows no substantial sympathy vote; more have changed minds other way. Wallace has so much support, he needs no sympathy vote.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Detroit, Michigan) Wallace campaign workers, fearing voters would think Governor out of race, spread word of his continued candidacy. [Worker says nothing can stop Wallace spirit, even if crippled as was Roosevelt.] McGovern and Humphrey call off campaigns while Wallace's picks up tempo.
REPORTER: Ike Pappas
(Detroit, Michigan) Someone tosses brick through window of Senator Hubert Humphrey's campaign headquarters in Detroit. Threatening telephone calls increase nervousness. Humphrey staff stops campaigning in white areas, but continue with less resentment in ghetto. Frustration noticeable at McGovern headquarters [McGovern campaign coordinator, Joseph GRANDMAISON - says success has been in locating McGovern voters, getting them to polls. Says McGovern has forbidden this in Michigan.]
REPORTER: David Schoumacher
(Studio) Coverage of Maryland and Michigan primaries announced.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(DC) Vision of Cornelia Wallace pushing husband around country in a wheelchair is such a political imponderable that no leading Democrat wants to contemplate it. Wallace's physical condition will now keep him in public eye as much as campaigning. No one now will try to pressure Edward Kennedy into running.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) Arthur Bremer, suspect in shooting of Wallace, characterized.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Milwaukee, WI) Bremer is quiet and withdrawn. [S. Division High School coach, William BARTHOLOMEW - says Bremer was reserved, enjoyed physical education, was competitive, no different from others, except introverted.] [Milwaukee Area Tech. College student, Andy TOWLE - says Bremer, in photography classes, was always defensive.] [Student, Kay JOHANNES - says Bremer was never violent but always had smirk on his face. Was withdrawn and reacted to criticism with half-smile.] Bremer had bus boy and janitorial jobs. In 1971 he was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon. Suspect weapon bought at Casanova Gun Shop near parent's home. A psychiatrist saw Bremer after `71 arrest.
REPORTER: Jeff Williams
(Milwaukee, WI) [Psychiatrist, Dr. Paul PURTELL - says Bremer's personality was dull, normal type-not very bright.]
REPORTER: Sylvia Chase
(Milwaukee, WI) [Father, William BREMER - says son must be sick.]
REPORTER: Jeff Williams
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(DC) Patterns of assassins noted. Victims, from Lincoln on, became objects of violence at peak of success. They were strong masculine figures, and assailants have been just the opposite. Conspiracy has not been rule in US. (Only attempt on Truman by Puerto Rican extremists was such.) Czolgosz, who shot McKinley; Oswald, who shot John Kennedy; Bremer, accused of shooting Wallace - all were loners. President Commission on violence 3 years ago predicted assassins would be: from broken home; withdrawn; white; male; foreign born; short with slight build; armed with hand gun; in crowd when attempting violence. He strikes out for his own identity and is always caught.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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(Studio) Concerned Clergy Against the War demonstrates in Capitol rotunda. Police arrest 150 for refusing to leave at closing time. Yale Chaplain William Sloan Coffin, Dr. Benjamin Spock arrested.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Commission planning for 1976 bicentennial celebration of American Revolution vote against having World's Fair in Philadelphia. Creation of commemorative parks in all 50 states considered.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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