One hundred years ago today, October 14th, 1912 former President Theodore Roosevelt who was running for president as the Bull Moose Party candidate against POTUS William Howard Taft and the Democrat nominee Woodrow Wilson, was shot and mildly wounded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by John Schrank, a mentally-disturbed saloon keeper. TR was wounded in the chest. With the bullet still in him TR carried out his scheduled public speech as planned. Schrank had been stalking Roosevelt for three weeks, following him across eight states. Schrank fired his .38 revolver from close range. Roosevelt was hit in the chest. Roosevelt’s speech manuscript along with a metal glass case absorbed most of the bullet’s force. Roosevelt would tell the crowd “It takes more than that to kill a bull moose” and then went on and gave his speech that lasted 80 minutes. Roosevelt carried the bullet inside him for the rest of his life.

Schrank would spend the rest of his life in a mental hospital,dying in 1943.