March 3, 2018
“And now, friends, I want to take advantage of this incident and say a word of solemn warning to my fellow countrymen. 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…I am in this cause with my whole heart and soul. I believe that the Progressive movement is for making life a little easier for all our people…I am absorbed in the success of that movement.”9
He only stopped once, roughly thirty minutes in, when he was interrupted by his campaign manger who attempted to convince him to go to the hospital, but Roosevelt waved him off. Only when the speech had been given in its entirety did he finally agree to go to the hospital. There, it was revealed that the bullet had lodged itself in one of his ribs and that it did not have a chance of shifting into his lungs, leading the doctors to determine that it would be safer to leave it where it was. After one week of recovery, Roosevelt was back on the campaign trail, with just over two weeks left until the election. Unfortunately, the bitter divide in the Republican Party cost not only Taft the election, but himself as well. Had one or the other run without opposition from the other, the Republican Party may have prevailed. While Taft and Roosevelt received over fifty percent of the popular vote when combined, the Democratic candidate, Woodrow Wilson, carried forty states and won in the electoral college in a landslide, 435 to 96, combined, which may in part be due to the fact that Roosevelt was running as a third party candidate. Even though Roosevelt did not win, he had come in second place, ahead of Taft. This was the first, and only, time in American history that a third party has done as well as Roosevelt did in this election, which demonstrated just how dominate he was on the political stage. Furthermore, his larger than life personality is displayed when later asked about how he remained calm enough to deliver his speech after having been shot, let alone one of its length, Roosevelt simply stated that he had been expecting it for a while, so he wasn’t surprised, and, “In the very unlikely event of the wound being mortal I wished to die with my boots on.”10Assassination attempt on Teddy Roosevelt
Bull Moose Party
Theodore Roosevelt
Miguel Camarillo-Cohen
The article was very interesting. I had no idea that President Roosevelt, while campaigning for another term promoting the Progressive Party agenda as third-party candidate, was not only shot delivered his speech. This article bought to memory how President Clinton, and, US Senator Jones won their elections. They won because third-party candidates give them the victory. While Roosevelt did not win the presidential election, he did receive the second highest votes, popular vote. Wilson won the election. Taft lost. Roosevelt set the Progressive Party’s platform. I enjoyed the pictures as well, nice touch.
25/03/2018
8:22 am
Maria Esquivel
Before reading this, I knew Teddy Roosevelt created the ‘Bull Moose’ party, however, I did not know that Roosevelt’s fifty-page manuscript and glasses case saved his life. Although, Roosevelt lost the presidential election, it’s nice to read how good he did as a third-party candidate. This was an incredible article on President Roosevelt, and the images provided were very interesting as well. Great Job, Natalie and congratulations on all your nominations!
22/04/2018
8:22 am
Timothy ODekirk
Theodore Roosevelt is an inspiration to America even to this very day. He was a highly respected individual. He put the move on the progressive party and demanded change for the United States during the time. The presidency and campaign of Theodore Roosevelt was quite interesting since this was during the time that changes needed to be made for the United States on several issues. Teddy Roosevelt is one of the most famous presidents in the history of the United States and will forever be a known figure to the country to this day.
23/04/2018
8:22 am
Tyler Sleeter
Great article with lots of information. Teddy Roosevelt is one of those people that I am always learning new things about. It seems like he did it all while he was alive. I did not know that Roosevelt had been shot and survived because of his glasses and a 50 page manuscript. It is interesting to me that Roosevelt did not let that stop him from giving a speech; such a show of bravado. Roosevelt seems to be one of those characters that comes out of tall tale, like Paul Bunyan or Pecos Bill. Only Roosevelt was a real person that actually did so many of the things attributed to him.
24/04/2018
8:22 am
Regina De La Parra
This article was very interesting to read and truly informative. I did not know how President Roosevelt became president and now I have even learned that he didn’t even win the popular vote! I love learning about politics and how these events that we today take for granted came to be, changing everything. This article is filled with lots of good research and insightful information. Great job, Natalie!
24/04/2018
8:22 am
Johnanthony Hernandez
Great article, Teddy Roosevelt has been one of my favorite Presidents. I remember being in high school and telling this one girl to shut up when we got to Roosevelt in our history class. I know I wouldn’t be up to giving a speech after being shot and my life only being saved by a pair of glasses and a fifty-page manuscript. But I do remember my teacher saying, “if you think your tough, get shot in the chest and give a speech that same day.”
24/04/2018
8:22 am
Kailan Pena
I had heard of President Roosevelt and his term in office but never knew that he ran for another term as a progressive party and was also a third candidate. He recieved the second highest votes a well as the peoples popular vote. He may not have won but in my book he stays winning because he is the one who set the foundation for the progressive party.
24/04/2018
8:22 am
Maria Mancha
President Roosevelt the youngest man in office who served 3 terms and survived a bullet, the man can’t be stopped. The intro to this article was very strong, it made me feel as if I was in the presence. His different views from the Republican. I think what was really interesting was John Flammang Schrank had a dream of Mckinely pointing a finger at Roosevelt and telling him to avenge his death. Also he used himself getting shot to make a speech, and I really enjoyed how you included a part of it in the article. Overall I learned a lot from this article and it was extremely interesting to read.
24/04/2018
8:22 am
Caroline Bush
Great article! I really had no idea that President Roosevelt had been shot while delivering his speech campaigning for another term. This article did a great job explaining just how Roosevelt got shot and the speech leading up to that. I honestly did not know that it was Roosevelt’s Fifty paged manuscript and glasses case that saved his life. Overall this was a very interesting article that I really enjoyed reading, I also enjoyed the amount of details included in this article and how they didn’t make the article drag at all.
24/04/2018
8:22 am
Erin Vento
I knew about Teddy Roosevelt and the Bull Moose Party, but I had never heard that he was shot and continued to give a speech for more than an hour afterwards and refused to go to the hospital until after he was done. I can’t imagine the amount of calamity and focus it took to continue to speak about something that he might have died for, as he stood there bleeding in front of the crowd. This was a really cool article.
24/03/2018
8:22 am