This day in history:
Minutes before giving a speech on a campaign stop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Theodore Roosevelt is shot in an assassination attempt.
The would-be assassin’s bullet is slowed down after travelling through a steel eyeglass case and the folded, fifty page speech he intended to give, stopping in his chest. Realizing that he wasn’t coughing up blood, Roosevelt figured he was well enough to go ahead and deliver his speech rather than rush to the hospital.
He spoke for the next 90 minutes, opening with the words:
“Ladies and gentlemen, 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.”
Doctors deemed it too risky to remove the bullet, and Roosevelt carried it with him inside his body for the rest of his life.
October 14, 1912 - 99 years ago today.
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5 comments:
and that's why president roosevelt is my personal hero. we (as a nation and a gender) need to put down the moisturizing body washes and gourmet coffees and start manning up!
The only way he could have topped that would have been if he'd caught the bullet in his teeth and spat it out.
Yep, from MY TOWN, buddy. Despite Happy Days and Laverne and Shirly, Milwaukee hasn't always had the best, um, representation.
Thanks, Jeffery Dahmer.
Oh, well, we still have our fish fries and drink alot.
Why don't you just bomb it, pave it and move on.
They don't make 'me like that anymore. Actually, not for a long time now.
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