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Woodruff On His Own Case for ABC
Who says you can't go home again?
Journalist Bob Woodruff, who was critically wounded by a roadside bomb while on assignment in Iraq back in January, is set to return to ABC News next spring with an hour-long special report chronicling his own story, starting with his injuries and following him down his long road to recovery.
Woodruff will tell the tale with the help of eyewitness accounts and interviews with the medical teams whose grace under pressure saved his life.
The network announced the plan for the prime-time special Thursday, presumably pleased and relieved to say that Woodruff, who had been with the network nearly 10 years when he was appointed late last year to the top spot on ABC's World News Tonight alongside coanchor Elizabeth Vargas, is back in action.
After anchoring the news alone and with Diane Sawyer and Charles Gibson switching off as guest-coanchors, Vargas stepped down in June to take maternity leave. She and husband Marc Cohn had their second child, a son named Samuel Wyatt Cohn, in August.
Gibson has since assumed the post fulltime and the name of the broadcast has been changed to World News with Charles Gibson.
Woodruff suffered broken bones and shrapnel wounds to his head, face, neck and chest—all the parts you can see from behind an anchor desk, anyway—when an improvised explosive device detonated near the military patrol he was riding with Jan. 29 near Baghdad. Cameraman Doug Vogt was also wounded in the attack but his injuries were far less severe and he has since recovered.
The newsmen underwent surgery in Balad. Iraq, and then were airlifted to Germany, where they stayed for several days before being transported back to the U.S. Woodruff spent several weeks under sedation at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and then was transferred in mid-March to a private recovery facility closer to his home in New York.
The 45-year-old father of four was up and around in June, making a surprise visit to the ABC newsroom and causing an impromptu tearful celebration, considering many of his colleagues had not since him since before he went to Iraq.
Woodruff made his first journalistic comeback in July, contributing several lines of narration to a Nightline report on North Korea that he had worked on the previous summer.
Along with the ABC News special, Woodruff is also working on a memoir with his wife, Lee, focusing on his life since the bombing, with portions of the proceeds going toward organizations that assist members of the military who have suffered brain injuries. Husband and wife will tell the same story from his or her own point of view.
"No one knows exactly just how they might or might not behave in a crisis until it drops out of the sky and knocks you down like a bandit, stealing your future," Lee Woodruff writes, per an excerpt on ABCNews.com.
"Sudden tragic events…teach us more about ourselves than most of us ever cared to know."
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