Defying the Assassin’s Veto: Grace in a Time of Violence

Breaking History

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🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In a week when political violence has returned to the national stage, we revisit a moment from the 1970s when Shirley Chisholm, the first black congresswoman, visited segregationist Alabama governor George Wallace after he was nearly assassinated. Her act of grace lit a spark that changed him. What can we learn from that moment today, after the murder of Charlie Kirk silenced a voice in mid-debate? This is a story about bullets, ballots, and the courage to choose humanity when others advocate violence. A special thanks to our sponsors: New episodes of The Isabel Brown Show can be viewed on DailyWire+ here: ⁠www.dailywire.com/show/the-isabel-brown-show⁠Follow Isabel on X: ⁠www.x.com/theisabelb⁠Follow Isabel on Instagram: ⁠www.instagram.com/theisabelbrown CREDITS Executive Producer: Poppy Damon Associate Producer: Adam Feldman Sound Designer: Volkan Kiziltug Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	In a week where Americans are wondering how to restore civility in this new era of political
0:09.2	violence, we look at the last epoch of the assassins veto, the 1970s. We tell the story of a near
0:16.9	murder of a racist governor and how a black woman came to see his humanity
0:21.2	and lit a spark that saved his soul.
0:24.4	What can we learn from the time Shirley Chisholm
0:26.6	visited political rival George Wallace
0:29.2	after he was nearly killed by another lone gunman?
0:34.5	Sayyipo fall and backlabel
0:38.4	the part you got
0:40.6	this next year's model
0:42.6	Lee Harvey odd
0:44.8	Irving Berlin
0:46.6	What happened once
0:48.8	happens again
0:50.5	When news up is a mystery
0:53.3	Because I don't get.
0:55.2	Turn into breaking mystery.
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