ABC's Bob Woodruff describes recovery

Monday, February 26, 2007 6:54 pm

NEW YORK - Bob Woodruff searched for the word, but it wasn't quite there. It was an internal organ, that he knew. He was describing a soldier's injuries when indecision stopped him. "Intestines," a producer sitting to his left in an ABC News conference room Monday gently reminded him.

ABC's Bob Woodruff describes recovery

This Jan. 2007 photo, supplied by ABC, shows ABC News\' Bob Woodruff interviewing a subject for his first on-air reporting since being severely injured by a roadside bomb in Iraq Jan. 29, 2006.

ABC's Woodruff, cameraman injured in Iraq

Sunday, January 29, 2006 6:45 am

NEW YORK - ABC News co-anchor Bob Woodruff and a cameraman were seriously injured Sunday in an attack and explosion while reporting from Iraq.

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ABC's Woodruff, cameraman injured in Iraq

This 2001 file photo of Bob Woodruff supplied by ABC shows him in a studio at ABC news headquarters in New York. Woodruff and a cameraman were seriously injured Sunday, Jan. 29 in an explosion while reporting from Iraq, the network said Sunday.

Lee Woodruff: `This is my kids' dad'

Tuesday, February 27, 2007 7:51 pm

CHICAGO - The wife of former ABC news anchor Bob Woodruff says she wondered if she'd ever have her husband back after he suffered brain injuries in an Iraq roadside bomb attack last year.

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Lee Woodruff: `This is my kids' dad'

This photo supplied by ABC shows ABC Newsman Bob Woodruff as he returns to visit colleagues at \"Good Morning America\" in New York Tueday, Feb. 27, 2007.

Cleanup

Natalie Woodruff weeds out a few wildflowers from the yard of abandoned home during Saturday's community cleanup in Surprise.

Cleanup

Natalie Woodruff weeds out a few wildflowers from the yard of abandoned home during Saturday's community cleanup in Surprise.

AJ citizens boot-strap ‘Oz’ play with enthusiasm

Apache Junction High School senior Thea Woodruff portrays the Wicked Witch of the West.

Two named to head 'World News Tonight'

This photo supplied by ABC shows Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff, named co-anchors of an expanded version of ABC\'s \"World News Tonight \" beginning Jan. 2.

F.H. resident won 800 meters at Berlin games

GOLD MEDALIST: John Woodruff of Fountain Hills talks about winning a gold medal during the 1936 Olympics.

Brian Regan

Comedian Brian Regan performs at the NY Comedy Festival Event "Stand Up for Heroes: A Benefit for the Bob Woodruff Family Fund", Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007 at Town Hall in New York.

Grand Canyon

Most active earthquake fault line in the U.S.: Grand Canyon Field Institute instructor and guide Marjorie ÒSlimÓ Woodruff (right) looks over the Bright Angel Fault Line on a satellite picture of the Grand Canyon. The Bright Angel Fault is the most active euarthquake fault in the United States, according to Woodruff. Pictured on the left is Grand Canyon visitor Christine Epps of Alexandria, Va. [Mike Sakal/Tribune]

Grand Canyon

Hitting the trail: Marjorie ÒSlimÓ Woodruff, points out a Prairie Falcon in a tree to a group of hikers along the Bright Angel Trail in the Grand Canyon. Woodruff, a former Chandler resident and former teacher in the Kyrene Unified School District, works as an indpendent contractor for the Grand Canyon Field Institute, teaching classes and leading hikes into the Grand Canyon. [Mike Sakal/Tribune]

Grand Canyon

Ready for take-off: Marjorie ÒSlimÓ Woodruff, a former Chandler resident and former teacher in the Kyrene Unified School District, prepares to lead a group of people on a 3-mile hike along Bright Angel in the Grand Canyon. For the last six years, Woodruff has lived at the Grand Canyon with her husband and for the last 11 years, she has worked for the Grand Canyon Field Institute. [Mike Sakal/Tribune]

Black gold medalist at '36 Olympics dies in F.H.

Thursday, November 1, 2007 3:48 pm

PHOENIX - John Woodruff, who joined Jesse Owens as black Americans who won gold medals in the face of Adolf Hitler and his "master race" agenda at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, has died at an assisted living center near Phoenix.

Chandler Boys & Girls Club preps for new digs

From left, President and CEO of Boys & Girls Clubs of the East Valley Ramon Elias, Mayor Boyd Dunn, President of the Chandler Compadres Bill Woodruff and Compadres member Michael Deitsch stand in front of the new Chandler Boys & Girls Club.

A new landscape for Conan O'Brien succeeding Leno

In this Nov. 7, 2007 file photo, late night TV host Conan O'Brien arrives to host the NY Comedy Festival Event "Stand Up for Heroes: A Benefit for the Bob Woodruff Family Fund", in New York.

F.H. resident won 800 meters at Berlin games

Tuesday, August 17, 2004 10:10 am

August 17, 2004

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F.H. resident won 800 meters at Berlin games

Tuesday, August 17, 2004 12:45 am

John Woodruff's legs carried him to prominence 68 years ago during the Summer Olympic Games in Berlin. Legs the 89-year-old Fountain Hills resident had amputated 1 1/2 years ago due to poor circulation.

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ABC anchor, cameraman at German hospital

Monday, January 30, 2006 5:12 am

NEW YORK - ABC News led its broadcasts with its own journalists in the news: anchor Bob Woodruff and a cameraman had been seriously injured by a roadside bomb while reporting in Iraq.

Grand Canyon

Another mission accomplished: Marjorie ÒSlimÓ Woodruff, a former Chandler resident and former teacher in the Kyrene Unified School District, who now lives at the Grand Canyon smiles on Tuesday after completing two days of hiking and instructing a group of seven people with the Grand Canyon Lodging and Learning Experience at Grand Canyon National Park. Woodruff, a Phoenix native, has been hiking the Grand Canyon for 45 years, has hikes the Grand Canyon from rim to rim about 50 times and is believed to be the first woman to have ever hiked the canyon from rim to rim when she was an 18-year-old student at Northern Arizona University. [Mike Sakal/Tribune]

Grand Canyon

Contemplating on continuing: East Valley Tribune reporter Mike Sakal carefully walks along a portion of the steep Bright Angel Trail in the Grand Canyon on Monday. Sakal was part of a group that participated in the Grand Canyon Field InstituteÕs Lodging and Learning Experience at the national park led by Marjorie ÒSlimÓ Woodruff earlier this week . ([Photo courtesy of Kate Corwin]