Posted on 09/16/2024 12:36:45 PM PDT by DallasBiff
A would-be assassin's bullet was slowed by Roosevelt's dense overcoat, steel-reinforced eyeglass case and hefty speech squeezed into his right jacket pocket.
Theodore Roosevelt’s opening line was hardly remarkable for a presidential campaign speech: “Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible.” His second line, however, was a bombshell.
“I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot.”
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 shirt. “It takes more than that to kill a bull moose,” the wounded candidate assured them. He reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a bullet-riddled, 50-page speech.
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Flame away.
Getting shot didn’t help his chances. So there’s that. Apparently we Americans are none too fond of 3rd parties.
And, yes, he gave us Woodrow Wilson...oh goody.
Lincoln, Wilson and FDR sent us down paths we are still fighting against today.
People forget that this is not the first assassination attempt in the state of Florida.
On Feb 15 1933 president-elect FDR was shot at a speech event in Miami.
should have said “shot at at” because he was not hit
Let’s be accurate: Lincoln intended to restore the Republic in his second term, but this was thwarted by the cowards who had him assassinated.
Guiesspe Zangara was executed 19 days later.
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