“I am very much uninterested in whether I am shot or not,” he told an audience in Milwaukee. Newly discovered documents shed light on how the 26th president wanted the incident to shape his legacy ...

In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt was shot point-blank before a campaign speech. With blood soaking through his shirt, he refused medical help and spoke for over an hour. This is the story of the speech ...

A stack of folded-up speech notes — and intervention from a medical team in Chicago — helped save President Theodore Roosevelt’s life, but not his effort to win a third term, 114 years ago. “This is ...

Most would head to the hospital. Teddy Roosevelt reached for his notes. After being shot in the chest by an assassin, he delivered a full 84-minute speech—bleeding the entire time. No deal with Iran ...