President Theodore Roosevelt inspired the teddy bear when on a Mississippi hunting trip in 1902, he refused to shoot a black bear that had been cornered by his assistants. Upon reading about Roosevelt’s declining to shoot the bear, Clifford Berryman drew a cartoon in The Washington Post on November 16, 1902, satirizing the president’s unwillingness to shoot […]
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