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Wasn't That a Time: Growing up Radical by Schrank is enormously readable and highly educational -- it's Schrank's life on the socialist side of America from the 1920's on: being sent to socialist summer camps and day camps as a kid, singing the Red Flag and learning about the evils of capitalism; the onslaught of the depression; life in working class schools; organizing labor unions in the early thirties.

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Wasn't That a Time: Growing up Radical by Schrank is enormously readable and highly educational -- it's Schrank's life on the socialist side of America from the 1920's on: being sent to socialist summer camps and day camps as a kid, singing the Red Flag and learning about the evils of capitalism; the onslaught of the depression; life in working class schools; organizing labor unions in the early thirties.

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Reference: It will be noted was made by members of the Roosevelt party to a laboring man who struck Schrank's arm as he fired, and who was one of the men who struggled with Schrank immediately after the shot was fired.

The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt Oliver Remey

[Illustration: Page Two of Letter Found in Schrank's Pocket.] "That's nothing," said Dr.R. G. Sayle, "she's been bossing us doctors for the past twenty years!"

The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt Oliver Remey

His statement dictated to Stenographer Martin asking the campaign to continue despite Schrank's shot was as follows:

The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt Oliver Remey

Schrank's defense is presented as he wrote it, with the exception of two or three corrections to enable readers to realize what Schrank is trying to say.

The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt Oliver Remey

Judge Backus appoints a commission of five Milwaukee alienists to determine, as officers of the court, Schrank's sanity.

The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt Oliver Remey

(Schrank's copy is followed closely in all presented here from his pen.)

The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt Oliver Remey

Schrank's dastardly purpose would have been accomplished beyond any conjecture.

The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt Oliver Remey

Schrank's duties at the Northern Hospital for the Insane and are light and remain so until the physicians of the hospital have had ample time to observe him.

The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt Oliver Remey