Shooting jolts US presidential race
A bloodied Trump pumping his fist becomes a defining image of the election
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ON OCT 14, 1912, former US president Theodore Roosevelt was campaigning for the presidency in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, when an assassin shot him. A bullet lodged in Roosevelt’s chest after penetrating his steel eyeglass case and passing through a 50-page copy of his speech, folded over twice in his breast pocket.
Roosevelt then assured the crowd he was all right, and ordered police to take charge of his assassin and make sure that no violence was done to him.
“Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible,” he told his enthusiastic, if shocked, supporters. “I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot, but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.” (The Progressive Party that candidate Roosevelt led was popularly nicknamed the Bull Moose Party.)
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