Teddy Roosevelt was shot here by yooperprof
In 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt was campaigning in Miwaukee when he narrowly escaped an assassination attempt. I had never heard about this story until I visited Milwaukee and happened across this plaque in the lobby of the Hyatt Hotel. TR was locked in a three-way campaign for the US presidency with Woodrow Wilson and the sitting President, William Howard Taft. Roosevelt's campaign had brought him to Miwaukee to give a major campaign speech at the Hotel Kilpatrck, located where the Hyatt stands today. As Roosevelt walked to the hotel, a crazed gunman pulled out a revolver and shot him at close range. The only thing that saved him was the fact that he was carrying the manuscript of his speech that evening close to his chest - the 50 page text slowed the bullet and preevented it from entering his heart.
