Seven Times Teddy Roosevelt Should Have Died — But Somehow Didn’t
Teddy Roosevelt survived childhood asthma, a carriage crash, a tropical disease, and even an assassination attempt in 1912 before dying quietly in his sleep at the age of 60. Topical Press Agency / Getty ImagesThe twenty-sixth Chief Executive of the United States , Teddy Roosevelt survived several brush with death in his life . In 1912 , President Theodore Roosevelt was shoot in the thorax by an assassin . Not only did he survive , but he carry on on to his verbalize engagement as if nothing had happened and famously boasted that the assassin ’s slug file in his thorax was n’t enough “ to kill a bull moose ....