On this day in history, Oct. 14, 1912, Teddy Roosevelt shot in chest, makes campaign stop minutes later
foxnews.comTheodore Roosevelt, almost four years removed from the White House and running for a third term as president, survived a gunshot wound to the chest during an assassination attempt in Milwaukee on this day in history, Oct.
14, 1912. He was shot at 8:10 p.m. — yet stoically went on to deliver an 84-minute campaign speech that night with the round from a .38 revolver lodged inside the cavity of his chest.
Blood seeped from Roosevelt's body and soaked his white shirt with a large crimson stain as he spoke. The force of the bullet aimed at his heart by New York City saloon keeper John Schrank was deadened by a metal eyeglass case — and the voluminous 50-page speech rolled up inside Roosevelt's coat pocket.
The incident stands as one of the more sensational yet largely forgotten events in American political history. "Theodore Roosevelt stepped out of the Hotel Gilpatrick in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and into an open car waiting to take him to an auditorium where he would deliver a campaign speech," Smithsonian Magazine wrote of the attack.
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