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Few could doubt him. Although his voice weakened and his breath shortened, Roosevelt glared at his nervous aides whenever they begged him to stop speaking or positioned themselves around the podium to catch him if he collapsed.

Only with the speech completed did he agree to visit the hospital. Bloodstained shirt worn by President Theodore Roosevelt, photographed following an assassination attempt in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, The shooting had occurred just after 8 p. As he stood up in the open-air automobile and waved his hat with his right hand to the crowd, a flash from a Colt revolver 5 feet away lit up the night. Bring him here. I want to see him. These objects slowed the bullet and saved Roosevelt's life.

It's unclear when exactly Roosevelt realized he had been shot, but he made his way to the auditorium after coughing into his hands, "to see if there were blood in his spittle," says Jenkinson.

Then, in what is probably one of the most remarkable feats of public speaking in history, he arrived at the auditorium and completed an minute speech, as Business Insider's Henry Blodget previously wrote.

The ex-president kicked things off by letting his audience know he'd been shot, according to the Theodore Roosevelt Association :. 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.

A handful of audio recordings of Roosevelt survive — here's one from As a speaker, Jenkinson says he had quite a few quirks, including large teeth, an aggressive manner, a habit of beating his fist into his hand, and a "distinctive way of biting off his words. TR had an outsized mythology to protect. As they say of Elvis' death in his early 40s, it could be said that this was a 'great career move. 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 can not make a very long speech, but I will try my best. First of all, I want to say this about myself: I have altogether too important things to think of to feel any concern over my own death, and now I can not speak to you insincerely within five minutes of being shot.

I am telling you the literal truth when I say that my concern is for many other things. It is not in the least for my own life. I want you to understand that I am ahead of the game, anyway.

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