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  John F. Schrank - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Flammang Schrank (1876-1943) was a saloon-keeper from New York, best known for his attempt to assassinate Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Schrank was born in Bavaria, and emigrated to America at the age of 13.
But Schrank was heartbroken, having now lost not only his second set of parents, but his first and only girlfriend, in a ferry accident in New York's East River.
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 List of United States Presidential assassination attempts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Schrank said that the ghost of William McKinley had told him to avenge his assassination.
Schrank was found legally insane and was institutionalized until his death in 1943.
November 22, 1963: While touring in an open car in Dallas, Texas, with state governor John Connally and their wives, Kennedy was struck and killed by a sniper's bullet, while Connally was wounded.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_United_States_Presidential_assassination_attempts   (1356 words)

  
 Wisconsin Historical Society | Wisconsin Historical Images
Schrank claimed that McKinley’s ghost had appeared to him in a dream, fingering Roosevelt as his murderer and instructing Schrank to avenge his death.
Additionally, Schrank claimed that it was his patriotic duty to prevent Roosevelt from serving a third term as president.
A judge concurred and Schrank spent the remainder of his life incarcerated, first at the Northern Hospital for the Insane in Oshkosh, then at Central State Hospital for the criminally insane at the state prison at Waupun.
www.wisconsinhistory.org /museum/artifacts/archives/001692.asp   (769 words)

  
 Warren Report: Appendix VII
John Quincy Adams received many threatening letters and on one occasion was threatened in person in the White House by a courtmartialed Army sergeant.
Schrank had a vision in 1901, induced possibly by McKinley's assassination, which took on meaning for him after Roosevelt, 11 years later, started to campaign for the Presidency.
After his attempt on Roosevelt, Schrank was found to be insane and was committed to mental hospitals in Wisconsin for the rest of his life.
mcadams.posc.mu.edu /russ/jfkinfo/app7.htm   (4959 words)

  
 The World According To Chuck
John Kennedy actually had one as a presidential-elect, which we're not counting, and there are lots of people who think there were at least a couple of pre-Dallas attempts in the preceding months, but we're just talking about what we can know here.
John Hinckley remains incarcerated in a mental health facility, where he's been for 25 years.
The uproar over John Hinckley's "not guilty by insanity" verdict not withstanding, which provoked certain state laws and other legislative means to punish crazy people who do bad things, it wasn't a precedent.
blogs.salon.com /0002813/2006/03/19.html   (885 words)

  
 John Schrank -- Classic Wisconsin
Schrank, meanwhile, never forgot the dream he had years earlier on the anniversary of McKinley’s death: The slain president is lying in state when he sits up in his coffin.
Roosevelt waved his hat in the air and the crowd erupted in cheers, enabling four policemen to fight their way into the melee and grab Schrank, who was hustled into the hotel and secured in the kitchen while bellboys kept the crowd at bay.
Roosevelt was bloodied and shaken from a gunshot wound to the chest.
www.classicwisconsin.com /features/assassin.html   (1594 words)

  
 frontline: a crime of insanity: insanity on trial: other notorious insanity cases | PBS
New York bartender John Schrank shot Teddy Roosevelt at close range in Milwaukee, Wis., where the former president was campaigning for a second term.
John Wayne Gacy was arrested in December 1978, suspected of being involved with the disappearance of a 15-year-old boy.
Described as "the wealthiest murder defendant in the history of the United States," multimillionaire John du Pont was found guilty but mentally ill in his trial for the 1996 murder of Olympic wrestler David Schultz.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/crime/trial/other.html   (2097 words)

  
 Theodore Roosevelt: Assassination Attempt, 1912
During a stop in Milwaukee on his 1912 "Bull Moose" campaign for the presidency, Roosevelt was shot at close range by John Schrank, a psychotic New York saloonkeeper.
Schrank had his.38 caliber pistol aimed at Roosevelt's head, but a bystander saw the gun and deflected Schrank's arm just as the trigger was pulled.
Schrank was committed to a state hospital in Wisconsin, where he remained until his death in 1943 at age 67.
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 The American Presidency
Roosevelt was wounded by John Schrank on his way to a campaign appearance at the Milwaukee Auditorium on October 14, 1912, but went on to deliver his speech.
Schrank believed he must kill Roosevelt to prevent him from serving three presidential terms, and because he dreamed that Roosevelt was responsible for the assassination of William McKinley.
Theodore Roosevelt survived an attempted assassination when the bullet was deflected and slowed by a metal eyeglass case and by a folded fifty-page speech.
americanhistory.si.edu /presidency/3d1e.html   (146 words)

  
 2004 WIAC Women's Soccer Headlines
Schrank, a senior midfielder from Reedsburg, Wis., is majoring in graphic design and posts a 3.88 grade point average.
Schrank has received the Chancellor's Award for Academic Excellence six times and has received the Comer, Nisken and Reedsburg SGA scholarships, earned the Edward and Dorothy Decker Endowed Scholarship and is a recipient of the President's Student Service Award.
Schrank, a senior midfielder from Reedsburg, Wis., maintains a 3.88 grade point average and is majoring in graphic design.
www.uwsa.edu /wiac/soccer/2004head.htm   (5340 words)

  
 Assassin attempt didn't stop Roosevelt from speech here   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Schrank, a 36-year-old Bavarian immigrant who had stalked the candidate for weeks, was waiting outside.
Schrank resented a panel's finding that he was a lunatic, but his protestations of sanity could not save him from a life sentence to an Oshkosh hospital for the insane.
Schrank died, still in the asylum, in 1943.
www.jsonline.com /news/state/wis150/stories/0127sesq.stm   (524 words)

  
 Digital History
Some have clearly been mentally deranged, like Richard Lawrence or John Schrank, who wounded Theodore Roosevelt as the ex-President ran for a third term in 1912, or John Hinckley, Jr., who shot President Ronald Reagan and three other men in 1981.
Schrank claimed the shooting was ordered by President William McKinley's ghost as punishment for Roosevelt's attempt to establish a dictatorship.
John Wilkes Booth was dumb-founded by the reaction to his murder of President Lincoln.
www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /historyonline/assassinations.cfm   (1655 words)

  
 Murdering McKinley: the making of Theodore Roosevelt's America.
John Wilkes Booth, in shooting Lincoln, merely extended the aims of the Confederate war; Charles Guiteau, Garfield's assassin, claimed divine inspiration and the righting of a personal snub; and Lee Harvey Oswald's motives for killing Kennedy are forever shrouded in mystery.
Leon Czolgosz, the man who shot McKinley, explained his reasons for killing the president with sober clarity: he disagreed with the system of global, industrial capitalism that the president represented and did what he perceived to be his duty by shooting him dead.
The man who shot him, John Schrank, was not a dangerous anarchist but an early, if surprisingly violent, advocate of term limits.
rauchway.ucdavis.edu /butlerreview.htm   (3072 words)

  
 JS Online:Teddy took a bullet and kept on going
Schrank, a resident of New York City, had trailed his quarry for nearly 2,000 miles before delivering his message in Milwaukee.
Schrank spent the rest of his life in asylums for the criminally insane, first in Oshkosh and then in Waupun.
Dallas still feels some collective guilt as the scene of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963, and Buffalo, N.Y., was so ashamed when William McKinley (Roosevelt's predecessor) was killed there in 1901 that the city built a towering monument to him in the city's main square.
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 as4
John Wilkes Booth kills President Lincoln when the Moon (ruling family life and mass, national emotions) is almost exactly rising and it is a Moon that is also simultaneously on America's Ascendant and it is crossing Mars in President Lincoln's eldest son's birthmap.
John Wilkes Booth was born with the largest planet Jupiter very close to this placement in early Virgo while JFK was killed with Uranus at 9+ Virgo.
It is also the Neptune placement for John Wilkes Booth, Chiron at the birth of President Lincoln, the Sun for Presidents McKinley and Franklin Roosevelt, the Sun for current Vice President Dick Cheney, the Moon at the death of President Kennedy, and Lee Harvey Oswald's Mars.
www.mcn.org /greatbear/as4.htm   (15170 words)

  
 AmericanHeritage.com / 101 THINGS EVERY COLLEGE GRADUATE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT AMERICAN HISTORY
John A. Garraty is chairman of the Department of History at Columbia University and a contributing editor of this magazine.
John W. McCullough, cashier of the Baltimore branch of the Bank of the United States, was sued by Maryland because he refused to pay a tax levied on the bank by the state legislature.
John C. Frémont, because of his long career as an explorer and surveyor, and his excellent published reports on his explorations, written with the help of his wife, Jessie, the daughter of Sen. Thomas Hart Benton.
www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1986/1/1986_1_24.shtml   (4775 words)

  
 SOUTH CAROLINA: Senior Sexuality Is No Longer a Secret
Dr. John Schrank, a physician with Infectious Disease Associates of Greenville, said he has seen an upsurge in the number of men and women over 50 who contract HIV, because seniors think of it as a disease contracted by young, sexually active people.
Schrank said doctors may overlook HIV, especially since symptoms may not surface for as long as ten years.
AEGiS is made possible through unrestricted grants from Boehringer Ingelheim, Elton John AIDS Foundation, Bridgestone/Firestone Charitable Trust, the National Library of Medicine, and donations from users like you.
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 washingtonpost.com: Jurors Say Hinckley's No Threat
Two jurors who helped decide John W. Hinckley Jr.'s fate more than 21 years ago -- and reluctantly agreed to give him a chance at future freedom -- said they support his bid to leave a psychiatric hospital on unsupervised outings.
George Blyther, 60, a retired Labor Department branch chief, and Woodrow Johnson, 70, a retired garage attendant, said they are confident that Hinckley is no longer a serious risk after more than two decades of therapy and treatment after his attempt to assassinate President Ronald Reagan.
John F. Schrank shot then-candidate Theodore Roosevelt in the chest in 1912 and also was confined to St. Elizabeths.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A14516-2003Nov25?language=printer   (1073 words)

  
 Travel, History, & Culture -- Classic Wisconsin
John McCaffrey's Body — The death of John McCaffrey is unearthed, and why it matters 150 years later.
Frozen Summer — On August 17, 1993, a college coed who was loved and admired by all who knew her was found murdered in a Stevens Point hotel room.
Valley of the Molls — In John Dillinger's heyday, the mere mention of his name could incite widespread panic, sometimes with comical results.
www.classicwisconsin.com /features   (744 words)

  
 Theodore_Roosevelt
At his inauguration on March 4, 1901, Roosevelt became the second youngest U.S. vice president (John C. Breckinridge, at 36, was the youngest) at the time of his inauguration.
He was defeated by Socialist Upton Sinclair in his historic run for a third term; he died in 1924 as the most beloved president in recent U.S. history.
Cooper, John Milton The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt.
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 Assassination Attempts on U.S. Presidents quiz -- free game
One of the most famous assassinations was that of Abraham Lincoln, who was killed by John Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theatre in 1865.
In 1912, Roosevelt was about to give a speech when John Schrank fired a revolver at him.
John F. Kennedy is the next president, who in November 1963 was assassinated.
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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Theodore Roosevelt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Roosevelt was the second youngest U.S. vice president (John C. Breckinridge, at 36, was the youngest) at the time of his inauguration.
Although the trust-busting era was actually launched by his predecessor, McKinley, when he appointed the U.S. Industrial Commerce Commission in 1898, it was Roosevelt who bore the nickname "Trust Buster." Once President, Roosevelt worked to increase the regulatory power of the federal government.
He persuaded Congress to pass laws that strengthened the Interstate Commerce Commission, which later investigated John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Charles M. Schwab, and other trust and corporate titans of industry.
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 This Day in History
Before a campaign speech in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Theodore Roosevelt, the presidential candidate for the Progressive Party, is shot at close range by saloonkeeper John Schrank while greeting the public in front of the Gilpatrick Hotel.
Schrank's.32-caliber bullet, aimed directly at Roosevelt's heart, failed to mortally wound the former president because its force was slowed by a glasses case and a bundle of manuscript in the breast pocket of Roosevelt's heavy coat--a manuscript containing Roosevelt's evening speech.
Schrank was immediately detained and reportedly offered as his motive that "any man looking for a third term ought to be shot."
www.historychannel.com /tdih/tdih.jsp?category=general&month=10272962&day=10272979   (907 words)

  
 NARA - JFK Assassination Records - Appendix 7
John Quincy Adams received many threatening letters and on one occasion was threatened in person in the White House by a court-martialed Army sergeant.
During the Presidential campaign of 1912, just as he was about to make a political speech in Milwaukee on October 14, he was shot and wounded in the breast by John N. Schrank, a 36-year-old German-born ex-tavern keeper.
After his attempt on Roosevelt, Schrank was found to be insane and was committed to mental hospitals in Wisconsin for the rest of his life.36
www.archives.gov /research/jfk/warren-commission-report/appendix7.html   (4626 words)

  
 MUNFA General Meeting - April 17, 2002
Executive Committee: Bill Schrank, John Bear, Noel Roy, Ian Jones, Karen Mearow, and Lili Wang are leaving the Executive Committee as of August 31, 2002.
Schrank reported that he and A. Lonardo are the CAUT delegates.
Hannah, Chair of the St. John's AF&G Committee reported on the Committee's behalf and first thanked the committee members and the MUNFA staff for their assistance.
www.mun.ca /munfa/gmapr02.htm   (1519 words)

  
 JOHN FAIN ANDERSON COLLECTION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Provenance: The papers of John Fain Anderson were donated to the Archives of Appalachia on October 21, 1986 by Janis M. Anderson, L. Brabson Jr., Katherine Brabson Vallila, Margaret Ruth Brabson, Stanley Sylvester Anderson, William Fain Anderson, and David W. Gott.
John Fain Anderson, born November 17, 1844, in Blountville, Sullivan County, Tennessee, was the son of Samuel Anderson (1805-1849) and his wife Hannah Crawford Fain (1811-1891).
John Fain Anderson died at his home on Sunday, April 28, 1929.
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 The Political Graveyard: Roosevelt family of New York
John Milton Hay (1838-1905) — Born in Salem,
John Milton Hay : The Union of Poetry and Politics
shot in the chest by John F. Schrank; despite the injury, he continued his speech for another hour and a half before seeking medical attention.
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 Presidential Assassinations
This former president was shot by John Schrank while campaigning in Milwaukee.
Schrank claimed that the ghost of William McKinley came to him in a dream and told him to avenge his assassination by killing his successor.
This president was shot by John Hinkley while getting into a car outside a Washington hotel.
www.vw.vccs.edu /vwhansd/PresAssassin.html   (505 words)

  
 NARA - JFK Assassination Records - Recommendations
John W. Booth; loyalty to the Confederacy, revenge for defeat, slavery issue.
John Schrank; declared insane, had vision that McKinley wanted him to avenge his death.
It would be difficult to understate the significance of the acoustical analysis done by the committee in its investigation of the death of President Kennedy.
www.archives.gov /research/jfk/select-committee-report/part-3-recommendations.html?template=print   (9772 words)

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