On October 14, 1912, former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt survived an assassination attempt by John Schrank, a former saloonkeeper, while campaigning for the presidency in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

2012年10月12日 · Clearly, Roosevelt had buried the lede. The horrified audience in the Milwaukee Auditorium on October 14, 1912, gasped as the former president unbuttoned his vest to reveal his bloodstained...

2010年2月9日 · Before a campaign speech in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, presidential candidate Theodore Roosevelt is shot at close range by saloonkeeper John Schrank while greeting the public in front of the...

2024年7月14日 · A former Republican president making a bid to return to the White House is shot while campaigning — and survives. But that assassination attempt happened in Milwaukee in 1912.

2024年4月4日 · On October 14, 1912, John Schrank shot Teddy Roosevelt in the chest, but the former president carried right on with the speech he was preparing to give as if nothing happened. In September 1901, a man named John Schrank had a troubling dream.

Theodore Roosevelt survived an attempted assassination when the bullet was deflected and slowed by a metal eyeglass case and by a folded fifty-page speech. This first page of the address was held aloft for the audience to see the hole caused by the bullet.

2015年10月13日 · The perfect shot seemed to appear as Roosevelt left Milwaukee’s Hotel Gilpatrick for an event at the Milwaukee Auditorium. Schrank fired his .38 and hit Roosevelt in the right side of his chest. The bullet lodged in his chest wall.

4 天之前 · Theodore Roosevelt was in Milwaukee on the campaign trail for a third presidential term on October 14, 1912 when a man named John Schrank attempted to assassinate him. On his way to give a speech, Roosevelt had just stepped into his open-air car outside the Gilpatrick Hotel when Schrank emerged from the crowd.

On October 14, 1912, an assassination attempt was made on Theodore Roosevelt. Miraculously, he survived and went on to give a 90-minute speech. Learn more about this incredible event.

2024年10月14日 · Theodore 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...