Good morning.
Friday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 53. Sunrise is 7:08 AM and sunset 6:13 PM for 11h 05m 05s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 77.4% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1912, Theodore Roosevelt is shot in Milwaukee:
Roosevelt was in Wisconsin stumping as the presidential candidate of the new, independent Progressive Party, which had split from the Republican Party earlier that year. Roosevelt already had served two terms as chief executive (1901-1909), but was seeking the office again as the champion of progressive reform. Unbeknownst to Roosevelt, a New York bartender named John Schrank had been stalking him for three weeks through eight states. As Roosevelt left Milwaukee’s Hotel Gilpatrick for a speaking engagement at the Milwaukee Auditorium and stood waving to the gathered crowd, Schrank fired a .38-caliber revolver that he had hidden in his coat.
Roosevelt was hit in the right side of the chest and the bullet lodged in his chest wall. Seeing the blood on his shirt, vest, and coat, his aides pleaded with him to seek medical help, but Roosevelt trivialized the wound and insisted on keeping his commitment. His life was probably saved by the speech, since the contents of his coat pocket — his metal spectacle case and the thick, folded manuscript of his talk — had absorbed much of the force of the bullet. Throughout the evening he made light of the wound, declaring at one point, “It takes more than one bullet to kill a Bull Moose,” but the candidate spent the next week in the hospital and carried the bullet inside him the rest of his life.
FREE WHITEWATER has a category dedicated to U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, as someone so conspiracy-driven merits vigilance. Below is Johnson from his debate with Lt. Gov., Barnes, when the audience laughs at Johnson’s nutty claim that he was the victim of an FBI conspiracy. (Johnson, by the way, leads in the FiveThirtyEight‘s projection.)
Johnson says the FBI set him up.
— Acyn (@Acyn) October 13, 2022
The audience laughs at him ? pic.twitter.com/aVlYg0fk0z
Melting Swiss glacier reveals wreckage of WWII plane:
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