Teddy Roosevelt was not shot during his speech. He was shot a few minutes before it, and his associates wanted him to leave but he said he was okay. In fact he was, as his thickly folded wad of notes that would be his speech appeared to have a bullet hole through them.
One time he was shot, he insisted that the doctors keep the bullet in, instead of taking it out. That may of saved him from infection, due to the terrible hygiene that doctors had then.
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