October 14, 1912 –
Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, campaigning for a return to office, was shot in Milwaukee by a saloon keeper named John Schrank on this date.
What saves Teddy was the bullet lodged in Roosevelt’s chest only after hitting both his steel eyeglass case and a copy of his speech he was carrying in his jacket. Roosevelt declined suggestions that he go to the hospital, and delivered his scheduled speech.
He spoke vigorously for ninety minutes. His opening comments to the gathered crowd were, “I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.” Afterwards, doctors determined that he was not seriously wounded and that it would be more dangerous to attempt to remove the bullet than to leave it in his chest. Roosevelt carried it with him until he died.
Schrank was captured and uttered the now famous words “any man looking for a third term ought to be shot.”
And so it goes
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