The moment Teddy Roosevelt survived a shooting and assassination plot in Milwaukee
In 1912, it was, and Teddy Roosevelt was trying to be admitted to his position within the White House. A discontented New Yorker tried to stop Roosevelt during his trip to Milwaukee.
A former Republican president attempting to get back into the White House is shot while running for office, but is able to live.
The assassination attempt took place in Milwaukee in 1912.
If it wasn’t for the copying of an extended speech, and the argument for spectacles, they could be more than an omission at some point in time.
On October. 14th 1912 Teddy Roosevelt was making a campaign for make a run for White House as the candidate for the Progressive Party, after failing to gain the support for the Republican Party. He visited Milwaukee for a talk to the crowd in Milwaukee Auditorium. Milwaukee Auditorium (now Miller High Life Theatre).
When he left the Gilpatrick Hotel (now the site of the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee), Roosevelt was shot dead by a raged New Yorker named John Schrank who was following Roosevelt to stop him from getting the presidency again.
The bullet hit Roosevelt on the chest but it was stopped by the contents of his purse, which included the case for spectacles constructed of steel, as well as the copy of his long speech. (The Hyatt has a exhibit that focuses on the incident at the entrance to its hotel along King Drive. )
Roosevelt was capable of delivering his speech. He also, with a dash of class and showed off his bloody dress and speech that was destroyed as a proof of his power.
The way Gerard Helferich recounts in his story of the incident in his book “Theodore Roosevelt and the Assassin” (Lyons Press) The shooting occurred in Milwaukee but it was due to Schrank had a mishap in previous attempts to follow Roosevelt across the nation.
Schrank’s mental state was deemed insane following having pleaded guilty to being the victim of killing. (He was famous for telling anyone he could hear that his main motive was his dream in which the president, William McKinley, assassinated in 1901, and was replaced by Roosevelt He claimed to Roosevelt that Roosevelt was the person responsible for his murder. )
But, Schrank expressed the fears of a significant portion of Americans about a president is in office for the third time — setting the precedent set on the table by George Washington The investigators could not connect Schrank with any conspiracy.
Schrank was a solitary man who spent the entirety of his life for 31 years in Wisconsin within mental facilities. As per his account that he never saw any person for his entire life and died in the darkness.
