page of speech
name: label: associated person
content: Roosevelt, Theodore
notes: label: Description
content: This speech might not have won Theodore Roosevelt a third term as president, but it did save his life. On October 14, 1912, the former president Roosevelt was campaigning for a third term when he was shot by John Schrank while heading to a speech at the Milwaukee Auditorium in Milwaukee, WI. The bullet pierced Roosevelt’s chest, but it was slowed by the folded fifty page speech and eyeglasses case he had in his breast pocket. Roosevelt insisted on delivering his speech before being taken to the hospital, where he told the crowd “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. But fortunately I had my manuscript...” While the bullet passed through this piece of paper, it remained in Roosevelt for the rest of his life.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Political History: Political History, General History Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PL.312087.01
label: catalog number
content: 312087.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Page Of Speech
label: Object Name
content: page of speech