Save 25% when you join AARP and enroll in Automatic Renewal for first year. Get instant access to discounts, programs, services, and the information you need to benefit every area of your life. Woodruff is married to Lee McConaughy since 1988 and has four children from their marriage. Half of these countries, I'd been there during wars. Bob and his wife Lee Woodruff, who is a speaker and a best-selling author have four children; their firstborn daughter Cathryn Woodruff born in 1994, a second-born son Macklin Robert born in 1999, and their last born twin daughters Nora Woodruff and ⦠I think in some ways he doesn't want to do what his father does. But when you go back, you realize these countries can get better, and eventually tourists will return. Each of the six episodes in National Geographicâs âRogue Tripâ begins with dramatic archival footage of ABC news correspondent Bob Woodruff surviving a ⦠George Robert Woodruff (March 14, 1916 â November 1, 2001) was an American college football player, coach, and sports administrator.Woodruff was a native of Georgia and an alumnus of the University of Tennessee, where he played college football.He was best known as the head coach of the Baylor University and University of Florida football teams, and later, as the athletic ⦠1:06. The provider’s terms, conditions and policies apply. Both men were wearing body armor and protective helmets at the time. If anybody was going to get hurt or killed, it would have been me. You can also manage your communication preferences by updating your account at anytime. Woodruff resumed his contributions to ABC World News with Charles Gibson the following day, February 28, with the first in a series of follow-up reports centering on the problems that wounded American soldiers are encountering in their treatment and recovery, particularly at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. More from [123]TV. Bob Woodruff is most known for his career as a journalist with ABC News, where heâs been since 1996. All these places that go through horrific times in history will change and go back to some new normal. Bio: Wife, Daughter, Net Worth. I'd like to go to Antarctica. However, he struggled with expressive aphasia for more than a year after the injury. Woodruff married Lee McConaughy in 1988,[1] and they have four children, Macklin Robert (Mack), Cathryn, and twins Claire and Nora. I always, as my wife says, see the cup as half full, not half empty. On January 29, 2006, Woodruff and Canadian cameraman Doug Vogt were seriously injured in an explosion from an improvised explosive device near Taji, Iraq, about 12 miles (19 km) north of Baghdad. Family: âWife Lee, children Macklin âMackâ Robert, 29, Cathryn, 26,  and twins Claire and Nora, 20. His grandfather was Atlanta manufacturing magnate Robert Winship.. After graduating from the Georgia Military Academy he attended ⦠Robert Warren Woodruff (born August 18, 1961) is an American television journalist, best known as a 2006 Co-Anchor of ABC World News Tonight alongside ABC News journalist Elizabeth Vargas. Vogt meanwhile was reported to be awake, mobile, and recovering.[13]. Bob Woodruff (born in New York City) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Please return to AARP.org to learn more about other benefits. Mack peeled away to see a different part of Beirut. I don't think it was because he was afraid. Radio and Television Association's David Bloom Award for Excellence in Enterprise (2006); American Legion National Commander Public Relations Award (2013), Public Leadership in Neurology Award - American Brain Federation/, This page was last edited on 1 February 2021, at 01:02. Woodruff was born in Columbus, Georgia, the son of Ernest Woodruff, an Atlanta businessman who, among other things, was leader of the group of investors who bought The Coca-Cola Company from Asa Griggs Candler in 1919. [5] In 1989, while Woodruff was teaching law in Beijing, China, CBS News hired him as an on-screen interpreter during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Once you confirm that subscription, you will regularly Woodruff has received numerous awards, including: C.B.Kirkpatrick, Historian, Bloomfield Village, Bloomfield Hills, MI. Fragman [123]TV. I loved going to Ethiopia, which was new to me. Mack is in some ways similar to me. 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