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by Arthur H. Bremer, 142 pp, $6.50, Harper's Magazine Press, 1973.

Donald W. Goodwin, MD, Reviewer
Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis

JAMA. 1973;226(1):83.

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Who is Arthur H. Bremer? When asked to write an introduction to Bremer's diary, Harding Lemay couldn't remember. George Wallace will remember. Bremer's bullet, fired in a Maryland shopping center ("Hey George! Over here!"), left a crippled candidate and man.

Who Arthur Bremer was in the Presidential primary spring of 1972 becomes slightly clearer from his diary, written during that period. He was 21, five foot six, from Milwaukee. He had a Confederate flag that he used to shine his shoes, and two guns until he lost one. He spent most of the six-week period covered by the diary stalking President Nixon, hoping to kill him and become famous like Oswald. Since the President dislikes demonstrators, it is ironic that demonstrators may have saved his life. They were always coming between Bremer and his target, and Bremer finally abandoned Nixon in disgust to stalk Wallace instead.

But who, really, was Bremer? . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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