theories of white racial superiority, as well as to anti-communist rhetoric. In April 1956 members of Carter's new KKK group attacked singer Nat King Cole on stage at a Birmingham concert. In September 1957 six members of Carter's Klan group abducted and attacked a black handyman named Judge Edward Aaron. They castrated Aaron, poured turpentine on his wounds, and left him abandoned in the trunk of a car near Springdale, Alabama. Police found Aaron, near death from blood loss. (Carter was not with the men who carried out this attack). Four of the six involved were convicted of mayhem and sentenced to twenty years, but in 1963, a parole board, appointed by Carter's then-employer Alabama governor George Wallace, commuted their sentences. In 1958, Carter quit the Klan group he had founded after shooting two members in a dispute over finances. Birmingham police filed attempted murder charges against Carter, but the charges were subsequently dropped. Carter also ran a campaign for lieutenant governor the same year that saw him finish fifth in a field of five. During the 1960s, Carter was a speechwriter for Wallace. He was one of two men credited with Wallace's famous slogan, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever", part of Wallace's 1963 inaugural speech. Carter continued to work for Wallace, and after Wallace's wife Lurleen was elected Governor of Alabama in 1966, Carter worked for her. Wallace never acknowledged the role Carter played in his political career: Till the day he died, George Wallace denied that he ever knew Asa Carter. He may have been telling the truth. 'Ace', as he was called by the staff, was paid off indirectly by Wallace cronies, and the only record that he ever wrote for Wallace was the word of former Wallace campaign officials such as finance manager Seymore Trammell. When Wallace decided to enter national politics with a 1968 presidential run, he did not invite Carter on board for the campaign, as he sought to tone down his reputation as a segregationist firebrand. During the late 1960s, Carter grew disillusioned by what he saw as Wallace's liberal turn on race. Carter ran against Wallace for governor of Alabama in 1970 on a white supremacist platform. Carter finished last in a field of five candidates, winning only 1.51% of the vote in an election narrowly won by Wallace over the more moderate incumbent governor Albert Brewer. At Wallace's 1971 inauguration,