Teddy Roosevelt in 1912 decided to run for a third term as president after being disappointed in his hand-picked successor William Howard Taft's administration. After losing the Republican nomination, Roosevelt ran as a third-party candidate, and the campaign became extremely heated. Toward the end of the campaign, he visited Milwaukee Wisconsin where he was shot from five feet away. Tune in to find out about the attempted assassination of President Teddy Roosevelt.

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