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“George Wallace was shot dead while running for President” says WSJ deputy editor

November 15, 2007 By admin

I was only eight years old when it happened, but even I know that Wallace was paralyzed, not killed, by would-be assassin Arthur Bremmer. Didn’t even have to look all that up.

But do I have a column in the Wall Street Journal? No I do not.

PLUS:

The story was retold all last week due to Bremmer’s release from prison. I guess Henninger was too busy deputy editing to notice. A shame: his article expresses many admirable anti-hippie sentiments, albeit without much flair.

UPDATE: a reader writes:

In today’s hard copy of the Wall St. Journal, Daniel Henninger says that George Wallace was shot *and wounded* in 1972, which was correct. Since this was presumably set in type before the online version came out, I can’t imagine why it was changed to ‘killed’ later on. The fault may not be Henninger’s but that of an officious editor.

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