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Article: TR's Midnight Dash.(Theodore Roosevelt)
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- New York State Conservationist
- Article date:
- October 1, 1999
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From Mt. Marcy to Washington
Most sixth graders have heard that Theodore Roosevelt's charge up San Juan Hill helped propel him to the White House. But few know of the dramatic midnight charge, by buckboard down a fog-enshrouded Adirondack road, that actually delivered him to the presidency.
This little-known drama began to unfold on September 6, 1901, when President McKinley was greeting guests to the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo and an anarchist, a gun concealed under a bandaged hand, pumped two bullets into the president at point-blank range.
Roosevelt, who had been elected vice president 10 months earlier, rushed to McKinley's bedside ...