Check out "History Unplugged" wherever you get your podcasts! Convenient iTunes link: https://itunes.a→→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! To most of the approximately 10,000 people packed into Milwaukee Auditorium on October 14, 1912, nothing seemed out of the ordinary in the moments before Teddy Roosevelt was scheduled to give what was supposed to be a simple campaign speech. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2017/10/near-assassination-teddy-roosevelt/ Sources: http://www.history.com/news/shot-in-the-chest-100-years-ago-teddy-roosevelt-kept-on-talking https://www.nps.gov/thrb/learn/historyculture/js-letter.htm https://www.nps.gov/thrb/learn/historyculture/whoshottr.htm https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-speech-that-saved-teddy-roosevelts-life-83479091/ http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/site/c.elKSIdOWIiJ8H/b.9297449/k.861A/It_Takes_More_Than_That_to_Kill_a_Bull_Moose_The_Leader_and_The_Cause.htm https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS2773 http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9404E4DD133CE633A25756C1A9669D946396D6CF http://bismarcktribune.com/news/columnists/curt-eriksmoen/coach-dropped-career-to-help-tr/article_72f41522-c4a4-11e2-a27c-0019bb2963f4.html https://millercenter.org/president/taft/campaigns-and-elections https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TR_Assissination_Bullet_Damage.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Flammang_Schrank http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/12/first-presidential-assasination-attempt/ Music from Jukedeck - create your own at http://jukedeck.com.