ARTHUR BREMER
Name: Arthur Herman Bremer
Born: 21 August 1950
Arthur Herman Bremer (born August 21, 1950), the son of a Milwaukee truck driver,
shot U.S. Democratic presidential candidate George Corley Wallace on May 15,
1972 in Laurel, Maryland, leaving him paralyzed for life. He was sentenced to 53
years in a Maryland prison for the shooting of Wallace and three bystanders.
After 35 years of incarceration, Bremer was released from prison on parole on
November 9, 2007.
Arthur Bremer grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in a working-class household. He
did well in English and history at school and displayed a talent for writing,
although his grades were generally mediocre. He scored 106 on an IQ test in high-school,
and around 114 on a test after his arrest.
School was an ordeal for Bremer, who could not make friends. Bremer wrote, "No
English or history test was ever as hard, no math final exam ever as difficult
as waiting in a school lunch line alone, waiting to eat alone ... while hundreds
huddled & gossiped and roared, & laughed and stared at me ..." and "No one ever
noticed me nor took interest in me as an individual with the need to receive or
give love. In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress,
withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and
smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then".
One teacher wrote that it was a pleasure to have Bremer in class, but when he
was in the third grade another wrote that "Arthur has adjusted well in class but
hasn't made an effort as of yet to play with the other children at recess".
He was remembered for awkward laughter and not being able to engage in small
talk with others.
Bremer was not rebellious as a youth and did not attract concern. Instead, he
was an adolescent in emotional trouble whose problems were overlooked because
they did not involve transgressions on which authorities focus. Despite his
problems, he graduated from high school on January 28, 1969.
Name: Arthur Herman Bremer
Born: 21 August 1950
Arthur Herman Bremer (born August 21, 1950), the son of a Milwaukee truck driver,
shot U.S. Democratic presidential candidate George Corley Wallace on May 15,
1972 in Laurel, Maryland, leaving him paralyzed for life. He was sentenced to 53
years in a Maryland prison for the shooting of Wallace and three bystanders.
After 35 years of incarceration, Bremer was released from prison on parole on
November 9, 2007.
Arthur Bremer grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in a working-class household. He
did well in English and history at school and displayed a talent for writing,
although his grades were generally mediocre. He scored 106 on an IQ test in high-school,
and around 114 on a test after his arrest.
School was an ordeal for Bremer, who could not make friends. Bremer wrote, "No
English or history test was ever as hard, no math final exam ever as difficult
as waiting in a school lunch line alone, waiting to eat alone ... while hundreds
huddled & gossiped and roared, & laughed and stared at me ..." and "No one ever
noticed me nor took interest in me as an individual with the need to receive or
give love. In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress,
withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and
smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then".
One teacher wrote that it was a pleasure to have Bremer in class, but when he
was in the third grade another wrote that "Arthur has adjusted well in class but
hasn't made an effort as of yet to play with the other children at recess".
He was remembered for awkward laughter and not being able to engage in small
talk with others.
Bremer was not rebellious as a youth and did not attract concern. Instead, he
was an adolescent in emotional trouble whose problems were overlooked because
they did not involve transgressions on which authorities focus. Despite his
problems, he graduated from high school on January 28, 1969.