 when i say wow in october nineteen twelve teddy roosevelt was campaign to be president again after having left office in nineteen oh eight in the suit jacket pocket he had a folded up copy of a fifty page speech is about to give in milwaukee wisconsin in the same pocket he had a metal case for his glasses as roosevelt was getting out of the car to give a speech a man approached him fired a gun right at the former president the bullet went through the papers metal glass case and into roosevelt's chest