TEDDY ROOSEVELT SURVIVES GUNSHOT IN CHEST
Milwaukee, Wisconsin (JFK+50) On October 14, 1912, former POTUS and Progressive Party* presidential nominee Theodore Roosevelt was shot while greeting the public in front of the Gilpatrick Hotel here in Milwaukee.
TR was shot in the chest as a 32-caliber bullet passed through his glasses case and folded manuscript which were in his breast pocket. Despite the wound, the former president went on to speak for 90 minutes and at one point pulled the bloody 50 page manuscript from his pocket, held it up for the audience to see, and said...
"It takes more than one bullet to kill a Bull Moose."
Doctors determined the bullet did not penetrate either TR's heart or lung, and decided it would be better to not make an attempt to remove it.
TR, who had broken with Taft and the Republican Party, made only two more speeches during the 1912 campaign. Woodrow Wilson, the Democrat, took advantage of the split in the Republican Party and won the Election of 1912.
*Progressive Party (1912) was formed by TR in the aftermath of his failure to win the Republican Party's nomination (won by WH Taft). The party's platform, titled "A Contract With the People," called for the dissolution of an alleged alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics. The party's official mascot was the Bull Moose, & the party was often called the Bull Moose Party.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin (JFK+50) On October 14, 1912, former POTUS and Progressive Party* presidential nominee Theodore Roosevelt was shot while greeting the public in front of the Gilpatrick Hotel here in Milwaukee.
TR was shot in the chest as a 32-caliber bullet passed through his glasses case and folded manuscript which were in his breast pocket. Despite the wound, the former president went on to speak for 90 minutes and at one point pulled the bloody 50 page manuscript from his pocket, held it up for the audience to see, and said...
"It takes more than one bullet to kill a Bull Moose."
Doctors determined the bullet did not penetrate either TR's heart or lung, and decided it would be better to not make an attempt to remove it.
TR, who had broken with Taft and the Republican Party, made only two more speeches during the 1912 campaign. Woodrow Wilson, the Democrat, took advantage of the split in the Republican Party and won the Election of 1912.
*Progressive Party (1912) was formed by TR in the aftermath of his failure to win the Republican Party's nomination (won by WH Taft). The party's platform, titled "A Contract With the People," called for the dissolution of an alleged alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics. The party's official mascot was the Bull Moose, & the party was often called the Bull Moose Party.
Bull Moose Party Symbol
