On October 14, 1912, former saloonkeeper John Schrank (1876–1943) attempted to assassinate former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt while he was campaigning for the presidency in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Schrank's bullet lodged in Roosevelt's chest after penetrating Roosevelt's steel eyeglass case and passing through a thick single-folded copy of the speech titled "Progressive Cause Greater Than Any Individual", which he was carrying in his jacket. Schrank was immediately disarmed and captured; he might have been lynched had Roosevelt not shouted for Schrank to remain unharmed. 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.
Memorial for the Attempted assassination of Theodore Roosevelt at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee
Theodore Roosevelt's eyeglasses case, penetrated by the bullet in the lower right
Elbert E. Martin Theodore Roosevelt’s stenographer, holding the speech with a bullet hole through the pages
X-Ray of Schrank's bullet in Roosevelt's chest
PS General Slocum
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The PS General Slocum was a sidewheel passenger steamboat built in Brooklyn, New York, in 1891. During her service history, she was involved in a number of mishaps, including multiple groundings and collisions.
Drawing by Samuel Ward Stanton
St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church, built in 1847 for the German immigrant community, was converted to a synagogue in 1940 due to demographic changes in the neighborhood
The great catastrophe of the passenger steamboat General Slocum (Angelo Agostini, O Malho, 1904).