How Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan Responded To Their Assassination Attempts
Yesterday, I wrote about how George Washington and Donald Trump reacted to bullets missing them.
I thought to check on two other Presidents who survived assassination attempts.
On October 14, 1912, shortly before the presidential election, Theodore Roosevelt was shot at a campaign rally. The bullet was impeded by a copy of Roosevelt’s speech and his glasses case. Roosevelt famously chose to continue delivering the speech. He began:
Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. 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, so you see I was going to make a long speech, and there is a bullet – there is where the bullet went through – and it probably saved me from it going into my heart. The bullet is in me now, so that I cannot make a very long speech, but I will try my best.
Here is a photograph of the manuscript and eyeglass case
Here is a statement from Theodore Roosevelt after his assassination in October 1912:
It is of cours
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