A speech may have saved Teddy Roosevelt’s life
On October 14, 1912, he addressed an eager Milwaukee crowd, “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”
Then he opened his vest and — to the sound of gasps — showed his bloodstained shirt
There was a bullet hole through all 50 pages of his speech, which he cheerfully showed to the crowd
Shortly before, the crowd learned, Roosevelt had been shot by a deranged saloonkeeper with a .38 from just 5 feet away
The 53-year-old found a dime-sized bullet hole in the right side of his chest. He asked to see the shooter and asked him, “What did you do it for?”
His aides begged him to go the hospital but — after coughing to ensure that the bullet hadn’t punctured his lungs — Teddy insisted on giving the speech
"It takes more than that to kill a bull moose," Roosevelt assured them
Luckily for his speech, Roosevelt had a self-claimed photographic memory. He went on to give an 84-minute speech going solely off memory
He carried that bullet inside him for the rest of his life. The speech in his chest side pocket may have saved his life
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