On this day in 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt was shot in the chest outside the Hotel Gilpatrick in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Fox News reports that he was hit at 8:10 p.m. as he stood in an open car and waved his hat to the crowd, and it identifies the gunman as John Schrank, a New York City saloon keeper.

Roosevelt was campaigning for a third term as president. Fox News says he had lost the Republican nomination to President William Howard Taft during a hotly contested convention that June, then ran under the banner of the short-lived Progressive Party.

HISTORY.com says the bullet, which was headed for his heart, failed to mortally wound him because its force was slowed by a glasses case and a bundle of manuscript in the breast pocket of his heavy coat. Fox News describes the manuscript as a 50-page speech. The Guardian reported in May that a presidential historian had found the first page of that bullet-damaged manuscript in the hands of a private collector.

Roosevelt refused to skip the event. HISTORY.com says he told the crowd it took more than one bullet to kill a Bull Moose. The two outlets differ on how long he then spoke. Fox News says the speech ran 84 minutes, while HISTORY.com says he spoke for nearly an hour before he was rushed to the hospital.

Admirers treated the episode as proof of his toughness. Fox News says his response helped secure the Bull Moose name for his party. The Guardian says the bullet was still in his chest when he died in January 1919.

Fox News says blood soaked his white shirt as he spoke. HISTORY.com says he was defeated by Democrat Woodrow Wilson that November.

What we know: Roosevelt was shot in Milwaukee on October 14, 1912, and gave his speech anyway.
What we don't: The cited outlets do not agree on exactly how long he spoke.