George Wallace was paralyzed from the waist down after an assassination attempt in 1972, ending his Presidential campaign. Arthur Bremer, the man who tried to kill Wallace, served 35 years in prison and was released in 2007 on parole. Despite the attempt on his life, Wallace won two primaries, attended the Democratic National Convention in 1972, and ran for President again in 1976.

A pivotal scene in the new Netflix movie Shirley is the real-life assassination attempt of presidential candidate George Wallace. Wallace, played by W. Earl Brown in Shirley, was a well-known American politician and judge who served as the 45th governor of Alabama for a total of four terms. Like the real-life Shirley Chisholm, Wallace announced that he was running for President of the United States as a Democrat in the pivotal 1972 election.

As portrayed in Shirley, both Chisholm and Wallace were victims of separate assassination attacks, although Chisholm's was far less severe...