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Evening Star, October 15, 1912. "This is no...
Jerry A. McCoy12:13pm Oct 15
Evening Star, October 15, 1912.
"This is no country for that sort of thing."
Clifford Berryman depicts Uncle Sam grabbing failed presidential assassin John Schrank by the scruff of the neck. Schrank tried to kill former Theodore Roosevelt the day before in Milwaukee where the former president was campaiging on the "Bull Moose" ticket. More info at http://www.doctorzebra.com/prez/z_x26a_g.htm or read a 1912 account of the attempt at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21261.
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