Bob Woodruff

• The road back: Bob Woodruff sought a career that mattered. After surviving a bomb attack while reporting in Iraq, the TV journalist gained new insights and a renewed sense of purpose.

On Jan. 29, 2006, Bob Woodruff was a freshly mimed anchor for ABC's World News Tonight. On assignment in Iraq, reporting on U.S. and Iraqi security fo...

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• Nbr. 2011, February 2011

• David Woodruff, Co-Founder of Bob Woodruff Foundation, Testifies Before California State Senate Health Committee

To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Lisa Gruber, +1-212-601-8358, lisa.gruber@porternovelli.com, for Bob Woodruff Foundation

• U.S. Newswire
• January 13, 2010

• Bob Woodruff and Martha Raddatz, Both of Abc News... [Derived Headline]

BOB WOODRUFF and Martha Raddatz, both of ABC News, have stories to tell about devastating carnage in Iraq. Both have already told these stories on television, giving them a visual impact that goes way beyond what is possible on the page. So together their new books raise the same questions: What purpose is served? Is a written account merely redundant? Why read about what we've already seen? Woodruff's "In an Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing" (Random House. 288 pp. $25.95), written with his wife, Lee, threatens to be especially gratuitous. He has lately been all over television, showing images of the January 2006 explosion that left him with grievous head injuries and providing first-person evidence of an astonishing recovery. The book could easily have been a maudlin cel...

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• April 11, 2007

• Bob and Lee Woodruff Reporting Monday From Quinnipiac

Less than a month into his dream job as ABC network anchor, the husband and father of four was gravely wounded by a roadside bomb in Iraq. We say "gravely" because it is believed Bob Woodruff would have died had he not been quickly treated by medical specialists accustomed to horrendous war injuries. His is not unlike the stories of many American servicemen returning from war these days, but journalist Woodruff's account of near-death and rehab at age 45 can be experienced in his stirring Random House book "In an Instant," co-written with this wife, Lee. You can also hear about it at one stop on the couple's book tour Monday at Quinnipiac University in Hamden (7 p.m., free to the public).

• New Haven Register
• July 28, 2008

• 'The Dr. Oz Show' Examines the Tragedy in Tucson with Special Episode ; Dr. Oz and Special Guests to Examine Surviving a Traumatic Brain Injury; Bob Woodruff and Dr. Michael Lemole to Provide First Hand Account of Survival and Congresswoman Giffords' Situation

NEW YORK, Jan. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --- In a special episode THE DR. OZ SHOW reveals the inside story about the medical facts surrounding the tragic shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. As part of the episode, Dr. Oz speaks with Dr. Michael Lemole, the neurosurgeon at Tucson University Medical Center who operated on the congresswoman. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090923/LA81070LOGO)

• U.S. Newswire
• January 20, 2011

• Abc News' Bob Woodruff Returns to Iraq

NEW YORK - ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff returned to Iraq on Monday for the first time since he was nearly killed there by a roadside bomb more than three years ago. Woodruff is on a reporting trip that left Washington with Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The ABC newsman is staying on U.S. military bases while he is in Iraq.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• July 14, 2009

• Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Awards $100,000 to Jericho Project for Homeless Veterans

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• U.S. Newswire
• May 20, 2008

• Ornaments Honor Fallen Soldiers ; Money Raised Locally Will Be Donated to the Bob Woodruff Fund for Victims of Brain Injuries.

A local service organization has created hand-knitted tree ornaments with the names and hometowns of Maine's fallen soldiers since Sept. 11, 2001, as part of a fundraising effort to benefit people with brain injuries. There are so many veterans that are going to come home and need help," said Nancy Phillips of the Altrusa International Club of Greater Biddeford-Saco, which will unveil the tree with all the ornaments on the day after Thanksgiving at the Saco Museum/Dyer Library's "Festival of Trees," which runs until Dec. 8.

• Portland Press Herald
• November 22, 2007

• Abc News Co-Anchor Wounded: ; Bob Woodruff, Cameraman Seriously Injured by Roadside Bomb in Iraq

NEW YORK - ABC's "World News Tonight" led its nightly broadcast with its own journalists in the news: Co-anchor Bob Woodruff and a cameraman had been seriously injured by a roadside bomb in Iraq. Woodruff and Doug Vogt both suffered head injuries, and Woodruff also suffered broken bones. They were flown today to a hospital in Germany.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• January 31, 2006

• Parties 'R' Some of Us

The party business is going "gangbusters!" Rachel Smiley, co-owner of Alpine Party Rentals in Vail, Colo., said a few weeks ago. Like many other party companies, Alpine isn't doing quite as much business as it did before the economy tanked, but, Smiley observed, "There are still folks out there absolutely spending money" At one recent gig - a two-night event hosted by a couple from Chicago - Alpine's portion of the staging ran $75,000. Not to point fingers. The West's rich folks provide help to those in need; they pay taxes that support public services and give to charities. Woodruff has not only shifted to throwing parties for individuals, he's also doing fund-raising events for charities such as hospitals. "I give (charities) a 30 percent to 50 percent discount (partly) because of wha...

• High Country News
• October 30, 2009