The Odd and Tragic Story of Lurleen Wallace, 46th Governor of Alabama

Let’s take a moment to remember Alabama’s first female governor, Lurleen Wallace, and the odd and tragic story that surrounded her governorship.

[@stevenpringle9225]

Did you all catch that? He kept the diagnosis of cancer from his wife. Denying her treatment that could have saved her life. Unbelievable!

[@sabrinashelton1997]

Murder, if you ask me.

[@Juliaflo]

@@sabrinashelton1997 Copy that.

[@patrickfranklin9661]

No wonder Wallace's Karma Train crashed...deplorable...

[@jb-vb8un]

murder, genocide, rape .... all instituions of the DEMOCRAT PARTY - seeTed Kennedy @ CHAPPAQUIDDICK

[@rickhartman8679]

I hear what everyone is saying, but remember the era.im sure the doctor gave him an informed prognosis,and there was no effective treatment in 1961. Other than cook your whole body with radiation basically. I think he may have thought quality over quantity. Just a thought.my grandmother was diagnosed with liver cancer in 1981 and doctor told my father it was not treatable.they did a surgery and she got better for a brief time and quickly passed.i think she was spared the anxiety

[@mediolanumhibernicus3353]

Incredible documentation. Fascinating. Thanks for posting.

[@brickmason4410]

I remember going to her funeral. I was 6 years old

[@ped832]

I did not know much of what I watched, but I wrote a letter to Lurleen in 3rd grade as a class project. I received a reply and still have it. It was about leadership and morality. My, how the times have changed.

[@kbanghart]

I wonder about her, and also about the wife of Henry Graham, the National Guard general who was ordered to demand Wallace step aside. Henry's wife was probably afraid the KKK would take out her husband or family.

[@malcolmxpanther]

What was moral about a segregationist ? Lmao

[@saltlifegull4091]

George was a pure narcissist who didn’t deserve Lurleen. He used the heck out of her until she was unable to even stand! Such a sad life for her; didn’t even honor her last dying request 😡

[@georgevargasjr.8911]

Further proof thatGeorge was a horrible man

[@MegaMixking]

No he wasn’t you stupid man

[@empirestate8791]

1:10 "Divorce would effectively ruin his political career." Wallace went through a messy AND bitter divorce during his third term, and yet it didn't seem to affect his political career. He was elected to a 4th term in 1983, married a woman three decades his junior, and separated from her while in office. Lurleen should have gone through with the divorce - she would have been able to find a much better man who cared about her, who was faithful to her, and who actually told her when she had cancer! Wallace hid the cancer diagnosis from her, and by the time she found out, it was too late. She may have survived if she started cancer treatment soon after the diagnosis!

[@Phono-fun]

That earlier in his life especially in the 60s it would have definitively ruined his political career. (By the 80s opinions had loosened a little and his name was a lot bigger.)

[@askledhead]

@@Phono-fun His career for her life

[@kbanghart]

​@@askledheadtypical Republican

[@DNSKansas]

@@Phono-fun The shooting gave Wallace a hell of a lot of sympathy. If he had not been shot, he might have lost the Democratic primary in 1974 to a younger, non-racist candidate.

[@DNSKansas]

@@kbanghartWallace was a Democrat

[@rivaridge7211]

When the lovely and gracious Lurleen Burns Wallace ran for Alabama Governor in 1966, she faced a very crowded Democratic field (of at least a dozen) consisting of many true Alabama political heavy weights in that race. Lurleen was a tireless campaigner and visited every single county in Alabama leading up to the primary. Her sense of affection and connection to her fellow Alabamians was real and heartfelt - and the feeling was mutual. The former dime-store clerk won that primary with a whopping 55% of the vote - making a "run-off" (second primary) unnecessary. Mrs. Wallace ran up vote totals in various counties that her husband George did not come close to getting in his own (four) winning Governor's races. "Governor Lurleen," as she was affectionately called, never once mentioned race during her run and, in fact, received a majority of the black vote the following November in the general election. RIP dear lady.

[@kbanghart]

I wonder about her, and also about the wife of Henry Graham, the National Guard general who was ordered to demand Wallace step aside. Henry's wife was probably afraid the KKK would take out her husband or family. I bet her and Lurleen would have gotten along. Heck maybe they talked and were friends.

[@App58187]

What’s your definition of lovely and gracious… cause

[@flipsidenation7679]

I'm black and even though she supported jim crow laws,it really isn't her fault,I mean she lived in Alabama and married a guy 8 years older than her.Im pretty sure she just did that for the support to cover up all the pain she really had at home.

[@christopherfortunato6018]

In the first statewide election where blacks were able to vote without trouble, she received a majority of the black vote.

[@FrankHorigan]

@@christopherfortunato6018 Yeah When George Wallace had his last term before he died he had a large majority of the black vote.

[@mattrussillo4587]

There's nothing "1960s fashion" about withholding information from a patient. That was as back asswards then as it is now!

[@keithcarey6312]

Actually, there is. In many states a woman could not even own property. She was at the mercy of her husband.

[@kbanghart]

​@@keithcarey6312only for sexists who wanted to keep women down. In 1961, when it was found and suspected, many married men wanted to control their wives, but women started to fight back. She finally found out in 65. Wallace kept lying to the press even up thru 1968. Other famous women in America at that time were taking action, for example some wives of the astronauts. Wallace even denied her request for a closed casket, and didn't allow any of the kids to live with him. He had plenty of opportunities to do the right thing and still didn't.

[@chrismcevoy2503]

Rest In Peace Lurleen Wallace.

[@jeansaavedra8877]

John Texas yessir

[@jerryklooster438]

Luleen Wallace hitched her wagon to a racist and a scoundrel.....a poor man's Hughie Long. His relative success as a 3rd party candidate in 1968 is still a national embarrassment.

[@yourmusicguru]

George was only ever looking out for himself. Even of we were to take away his controversial stance on civil rights, he’s still a rotten and despicable man. I’m glad my father wasn’t anything like Wallace.

[@punishedgloyperstormtroope8098]

You can’t say something like that and call yourself a dixie. George Wallace was number 1

[@dougfredricks2017]

Can we say narcissist?

[@kbanghart]

​@@punishedgloyperstormtroope8098of course, that's why normal people don't call ourselves Dixies. Dixie's are #1 of the trash heap

[@samuelmorel9340]

Who does't tell there wife she has cancer?

[@IslandGirl-nt6ry]

That's also malpractice.

[@SFVnative]

They used to do that in the past, not tell people they were dying of cancer but tell only a spouse or parent. But Wallace's wife wasn't disgnosed as terminal so I don't know what the hell the doctor and Wallace were thinking. Maybe back then if you had cancer you usually died or it looked so bad the doctor thought she would die. Or maybe he was such a rotten person he wanted her to die so he could marry someone else. :(

[@ryanbentley8362]

someone who did not value human life

[@Maz-zb9uf]

I think all he cares about is running for office

[@kbanghart]

​@@SFVnativewell he did marry someone else much younger, and then she divorced him I think lol

[@raelraven3]

I was a little kid living just outside Birmingham when all this went down. I remember even at that young age thinking how opportunistic and immoral George Wallace behaved.

[@DNSKansas]

Narcissist supreme. Only cared about where his votes were coming from. Didn't give a shit about Alabama. Bear Bryant should have kicked his sorry ass at the 50-yard line of Legion Field.

[@baileybutterfly320]

He’s evil. Flat out EVIL

[@IsmokeHiphopLive]

Author Brimmer True American hero.

[@prestonmartin8268]

Lurleen Wallace was my great grandfathers cousin on my dads side

[@lisagamingrobloxisamazinga8423]

Cool

[@jeansaavedra8877]

Probably through incest

[@prestonmartin8268]

Jean Saavedra Nah that’s not true

[@chruborimgeveza9338]

@@jeansaavedra8877 well youre a failed abortion so

[@cdtimmin]

What a horrible husband and father

[@Republic4ever714]

I never liked the man before I even knew this story he just always rubbed me the wrong way ! This is a truly pathetic man.

[@shannonhutcheson5998]

So I’m guessing Trump is Wallace’s long lost son and his supporters are the long lost children of his supporters. Now I get it.

[@RoKBottomStudios]

Shannon put down the crack pipe.

[@kbanghart]

​@@RoKBottomStudiosshe's kinda correct tho

[@RoKBottomStudios]

@kbanghart You know in these current times, I would think people would've wised up by now. But the spook controlled media really did a number on yall.

[@cryonygen]

Segregation forever

[@firstlady2178]

Dang, her own husband screwed her 😮

[@johnturner711]

Lurleen Wallace was beloved. What a crummy little video.

[@larrylunceford8346]

She sold drugs to

[@SFVnative]

@Sheree Hi--She actually wasn't. She was very bright and was able to graduate from high school at age 15. But I guess her parents couldn't or wouldn't send her to college. She was a stand-in for her husband but she did some good things on her own, like doing something about the horrible state hospital where mentally disabled people lived. She visited it when someone brought it to her attention, while her husband apparently didn't give a damn during his term as governor.

[@southernchristianwhiteman6224]

@John Texas you're a dirty liberal

[@trucker4life463]

Gods work in the End ...Good Ridens🙏

[@johnturner711]

Also, didn't sound like no Alabamian narrating it!

[@sgreene420]

John Turner because we wouldn't have been able to understand it then.

[@tessaprn]

Scott Greene don't be a butt.

[@kbanghart]

​@@tessaprnwell, sometimes it's true

[@bobbybabylon1385]

another disgusting amerikkklan

[@smitchell2339]

This is the most inaccurate video.

[@CollectorsCorner777]

Any follow up or just an ignorant statement?

[@Maz-zb9uf]

How ?

[@leviculp6470]

You provided zero proof of the false allegations you made, knowing full well that you can't be sued for slander by someone who has passed away. Just because your smear is legal does not make it right.

[@kaylatesfaye]

shut the fuck up

[@BR-lo1pi]

What, exactly are you contesting? It is a well known fact that George Wallace hid his wife's cancer diagnosis from her, if that is what you're talking about.

[@kbanghart]

Ah so all this time and you have not backed up your arguments.

[@Allradicalliberalsneedtodie]

She was 16 and he was 24, hold up cowboy 🤠