ABC News’ Bob Woodruff Returns to Iraq in New Special ‘After the Blast: The Will to Survive’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comValerie Wu Intern ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff, who was severely injured in a roadside bombing while covering Iraq in 2006, is returning to the country — and the exact spot where he was hurt — in a new special.
ABC News’ “After the Blast: The Will to Survive,” which chronicles Woodruff’s journey back to where it all happened, will premiere Nov.
10 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC and stream on Hulu the following day. Woodruff was ABC’s “World News Tonight” anchor with Elizabeth Vargas in 2006, when he and cameraperson Doug Vogt suffered a near-death experience during a roadside bombing.
Vargas simultaneously went on maternity leave and departed the newscast; Charles Gibson then took over “World News.” Woodruff left Iraq with a traumatic brain injury and a long recovery process, although he returned to “World News Tonight” the following year as a correspondent.
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