An unemployed saloonkeeper shot (former) president Theodore Roosevelt as he was about to give a 90-minute speech. Instead of heading straight to the hospital, Roosevelt insisted on still delivering the speech. He slowly asked the people to be as quiet as possible. Secondly, he said, "I don't know whether you fully understand I have been shot." The audience looked at him with shocked and terrified faces as he continued with his speech. He explained how the papers of his speech might of saved his life. He ignored the please from the crowd for him to go to the hospital until he was finished with his shorter yet effective speech. Roosevelt then continued to the hospital. His attempted assailant was captured and declared guilty and mentally ill in trial. The bullet was decided to be kept inside of Roosevelt for it was safer to do so. Roosevelt lived up to the quote of the editor-in-chief of Outlook," Roosevelt is an electric battery of inexhaushttp://www.history.com/news/shot-in-the-chest-100-years-ago-teddy-roosevelt-kept-on-talking
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