Event

Attempted assassination of Theodore Roosevelt

Name: Attempted assassination of Theodore Roosevelt
Start: 1912-10-14

14 Oct 1912 · 43.04° N, 87.91° W

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When: 14 Oct 1912
Kind: Event
Coordinates: 43.04° N, 87.91° W

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Attempted assassination of Theodore Roosevelt.

Summary

While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, former President Theodore Roosevelt is shot by saloonkeeper John Schrank. With a fresh flesh wound and the bullet still in him, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech. After finishing it, he goes to the hospital, where it is deduced that if he had not had his speech in his breast pocket when he was shot, he most likely would have died.