The shooter is John Schrank, a 36-year-old German immigrant, who claimed that William McKinley, Roosevelt's predecessor, had come to him in a dream and told him to do it. Doctors examined him and ruled him insane. He was committed to a State hospital, and died there in 1943.
Roosevelt was on his way to the Milwaukee Auditorium, at 500 W. Kilbourn. His life was saved because he had his long speech tucked in his pocket, and it slowed the bullet down. He gave the speech anyway, telling the crowd, "It takes more than a bullet to stop a Bull Moose!" He talked for an hour and a half before he was finally persuaded to go to the hospital.
The Republican incumbent, President William Howard Taft, and the Democratic nominee, Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey, suspended campaigning until Roosevelt was released from the hospital. In the end, because of the split in the Republican ranks, Wilson won: He got only a plurality of the popular vote, but an overwhelming majority of the Electoral Vote, since Roosevelt, who remains the last 3rd party nominee to finish as high as 2nd, won 6 States, and Taft only 2.
The 4,086-seat Milwaukee Auditorium, built in 1909, still stands, under the name of the Miller High Life Theatre. The Milwaukee Arena, a.k.a. the MECCA, was built next-door in 1951, the Bradley Center across State Street from the MECCA in 1988, and the new Fiserv Forum across Highland Street from that. The Bradley Center has now been demolished, while the MECCA has been renamed the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena, after the University of Wisconsin's Milwaukee campus and its teams.
Both Taft, the man that Roosevelt suggested as his successor and then opposed for deviating from his principles, and Wilson gave speeches at the Auditorium.
So did West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in 1956, Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy in 1960, Martin Luther King in 1964, Presidential candidate Michael Dukakis in 1988, Presidential candidates George W. Bush and Ralph Nader in 2000, and Presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016 -- which, along with Russian hacking and leftists abandoning Hillary Clinton, may have helped him win Wisconsin.
Both Taft, the man that Roosevelt suggested as his successor and then opposed for deviating from his principles, and Wilson gave speeches at the Auditorium.
So did West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in 1956, Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy in 1960, Martin Luther King in 1964, Presidential candidate Michael Dukakis in 1988, Presidential candidates George W. Bush and Ralph Nader in 2000, and Presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016 -- which, along with Russian hacking and leftists abandoning Hillary Clinton, may have helped him win Wisconsin.
The Gilpatrick, opened in 1907, was torn down in 1970. A new hotel, the Hyatt Regency, was built on the site.
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October 14, 1912 was a Monday. It was midweek for football, the off-season for hockey, and professional basketball barely existed.
But the baseball season was reaching its climax. Game 6 of the World Series was played that day, at the Polo Grounds in New York. The New York Giants scored 5 runs in the 1st inning, and held off the Boston Red Sox to win, 5-2. This gave them, not counting Game 2, which was tied when it was called due to darkness, a 3-2 lead in the Series.
However, the Red Sox would win Game 7, and force a deciding Game 8 at their new ballpark, Fenway Park. A famous error in the bottom of the 10th inning, by Giant center fielder Fred Snodgrass would point the way to an 8-7 win for the Red Sox.