Reaching for Joy
Committed
Jo Piazza
4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
In 2006 Lee Woodruff got the phone call that no wife ever wants to get. Her husband Bob, then the co-anchor of ABC World News Tonight, had been hit by a roadside bomb in Iraq. In the explosion of rocks and metal, Bob was critically injured, sustaining shrapnel wounds to the head.
He was evacuated to Bethesda Maryland where he was put into a medically induced coma for five weeks to allow his brain to heal. Bob and Lee had already been together for a long time, they had four young kids and Lee had no idea what their life would look like moving forward. Lee recounts her love story and their family's journey beautifully in her New York Times bestseller In an Instant, but I have to say that there was nothing like hearing both Bob and Lee tell their story together in this interview. This is a story about the unexpected, both the unexpected tragedies that upend our lives, but also the unexpected joy that we find in the aftermath of those tragedies.
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| 0:26.1 | Friday night and Saturday night, starting at 10 p.m. Eastern, 7 p.m. Pacific. |
| 0:30.9 | Every day's wise, we have personally no way every day's. |
| 0:34.4 | In 1995, Detective Tony Richardson was trying to figure out who killed a fellow officer. |
| 0:41.6 | The case comes down to who is believed and who is ignored. |
| 0:46.0 | Oh my goodness, we did commit to an innocent man. |
| 0:49.3 | I'm Beth Shelburn from Lava for Good Podcasts. This is Ear Witness. |
| 0:54.8 | Listen to Ear Witness on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:02.4 | Sometimes the pop culture we love just teens hits differently in retrospect. |
| 1:06.4 | Maybe it's a tabloid story we couldn't get enough of or an illicit student-teacher relationship |
| 1:11.1 | on our favorite show. We're Suzy Bannockerim and Jessica Bennett, |
| 1:14.6 | posts of the new podcast in retrospect, where each week we'll revisit a cultural moment |
| 1:19.5 | from the past that shaped us and probably you. To try to understand what it taught us about |
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| 1:27.3 | for years and years. Listen to In retrospect on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, |
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| 1:41.7 | Good morning, everyone. We have to begin today with some news that has hit close to home. |
| 1:45.2 | For all of us here at ABC, our world news tonight, co-anchor Bob Woodruff and his cameraman, Doug |
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