 would be the shooting of the presidential candidate George Wallace on May the 15th, 1972, in Laurel, Maryland, which permanently paralyzed the former governor of Alabama. Of course, Wallace was a figure quite unlike Donald Trump. Wallace was an avowed segregationist and so on. But he stood to have a big impact in the 1972 campaign because he had already done so in 1968. And, of course, that wound up very differently for George Wallace