Posted on 01/30/2006 4:21:12 AM PST by truthandlife
Bob Woodruff had a comfortable career in corporate law ahead of him when he took a year away to teach in China. It was 1989, the year of the Tiananmen Square protest, and amid the chaos, Woodruff discovered his passion for journalism.
He was reporting from of another volatile part of the world on Sunday, this time as the 44-year-old co-anchor of ABC News' "World News Tonight," when an explosive device detonated, seriously injuring him and a cameraman north of Baghdad, Iraq.
Woodruff grew up in the Detroit area and attended Colgate University and the University of Michigan law school before taking a corporate law job in New York.
Along the way, he also learned Chinese, and he decided to spend part of 1989 in Beijing teaching law. When the Tiananmen Square protests began, he got involved, signing on as a translator for CBS News anchor Dan Rather.
"When I realized there was a job that existed in this world where I could be in the middle of huge world events and actually get paid for it, it was an epiphany for me," Woodruff told The Associated Press in a recent interview.
Agree
Coverage of Woodruff reminds me of Daniel Pearl's case. I believe everyone remembers Pearl with great respect, no matter what his political leanings were or what paper he worked for. His death shocked us, because he risked so much.
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