In a chilling postscript to the affair, it turned out that the would-be assassin, Arthur Bremer, was stalking not only Governor George Wallace. Authorities learned soon after the shooting that in early April Bremer had registered at New York's Waldorf-Astoria at the same time Hubert Humphrey was supposed to have been there. Humphrey, as it happened, had canceled his trip. Last week a picture was released of Bremer in Ottawa later in April in a crowd outside Parliament, while inside, President Nixon was appearing with Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Bremer had stayed in the city's Lord Elgin Hotel...
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