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Teddy Roosevelt Survives Assassination Attempt in WI, Oct. 14, 1912
On the night of October 14, 1912, Theodore Roosevelt was addressing 9,000-12,000 people in Milwaukee Auditorium when he stopped to take a drink of water from this glass. Nearby doctors took this opportunity to advise the former president to stop talking. Roosevelt was pushing himself with no heed to the fact that lodged in his chest was a bullet that had been fired by a would-be assassin earlier that evening.
See Roosevelt's drinking glass from the night of the assassination, one of many objects in our Museum's collections.
:: Posted October 14, 2005
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