Well, at least Joe Wilson didn't go as far as another Representative from South, Carolina Preston Brooks who on May 22, 1856, beat Senator Charles Sumner with his Gutta-percha wood walking cane in the Senate chamber because of a speech Sumner had made three days earlier, criticizing Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas. Sumner took three years to recover from the attack. Brooks was returned to Congress and sent walking sticks inscribed "Hit him again!"
No press report has been able to discover and no political journalist can remember any instance where a member of Congress has rudely shouted at the President of the United States during a joint session of Congress as Joe Wilson of South Carolina did tonight.
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Kerry Lauerman
Joan Walsh
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