Roosevelt did not believe in police harming civilians. Roosevelt assured the crowd he was all right, then ordered police to take charge of Schrank and to make sure no violence was done to him. Schrank was immediately disarmed (by Czech immigrant Frank Bukovsky) and captured he might have been lynched had Roosevelt not shouted for Schrank to remain unharmed. Schrank's bullet lodged in Roosevelt's chest after penetrating Roosevelt's steel eyeglass case and passing through a thick (50 pages) single-folded copy of the speech titled "Progressive Cause Greater Than Any Individual", which he was carrying in his jacket. President Theodore Roosevelt while he was campaigning for the presidency in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On October 14, 1912, former saloonkeeper John Flammang Schrank (1876–1943) attempted to assassinate former U.S.
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