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Teddy Roosevelt was famously tough. How did he react when an assassin shot him point-blank in the chest in 1912?

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Teddy Roosevelt was famously tough. How did he react when an assassin shot him point-blank in the chest in 1912?

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Teddy Roosevelt was famously tough. How did he react when an assassin shot him point-blank in the chest in 1912?
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