Theodore Roosevelt Assassination Attempt at Gilpatrick Hotel

In 1912, the presidential candidate, Theodore Roosevelt, was shot before a campaign speech. The responsible for this shooting was saloonkeeper, John Flammang Schrank. The motive for the murder attempt was that John Flaming Schrank had a mental illness and explained that “any man looking for a third term ought to be shot". This took place at the former Gilpatrick Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Theodore Roosevelt was going to be in a presidential campaign speech on October 14, 1912, when he was shot directly to his heart at the former Gilpatrick Hotel. The shot was not deadly because its force was slowed by a glasses case and a manuscript of at least 50 pages that were inside of the breast pocket.

The person responsible for the assassination attempt was John Flammang Schrank, a German man that was found insane after saying that he shot Roosevelt because no one should look for a third term as a president, and he said that it was the ghost of William McKinley that made him shot Roosevelt.

A&E Television Networks. Theodore Roosevelt shot in Milwaukee, History . February 9th, 2010. Accessed January 17th, 2023. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/theodore-roosevelt-shot-in-milwaukee.

The website History is an extensive article platform where different editors share "stories from the past that help you make sense of the present". It is also a news platform known all over the world. It explains shortly the happened onWisconsin the day that Roosevelt suffered the murder attempt at his campaign event. The authors talk about the place and how everything happen; also it explains the reasons behind this murder attempt.

Dickinson State University . John Flammang Schrank , Theodore Roosevelt Center . Accessed February 23rd, 2023. https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Learn-About-TR/TR-Encyclopedia/Law-and-Justice/John-Flammang-Schrank.aspx.

The article published by the Dickinson University about Theodore Roosevelt assassination attempt talks about the person that almost committed the murder. The source was useful for the entry since it gave important data on John Flammang and his possible motifs. The article mentions his mental illness and his political inclinations.