Gabrielle Giffords' Husband Thought She Was Dead

[Still a Democrat]

Mark Kelly, husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, said he believed for approximately 20 minutes that his wife was dead after watching a mistaken television news report.

"I just, you know, walked into the bathroom, and you know, broke down," he told ABC News in an interview. "To hear that she died is just, it's devastating for me."

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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20028888-504083.html

[DesertFlower]

1. i heard that too. even when i googled

they said she was dead.

[Uzybone]

2. they all announced that she had passed

CNN, FauX, MSNBC, ABC, PBS etc....

nice media we have.

[indepat]

4. Don't know the genesis of the erroneous reports, but it would seem likely anyone knowing a person

who had been shot in the forehead with the bullet traversing through the brain and exiting from the back of the head had received a fatal wound. :shrug:

[treestar]

6. Now they learned about ASSuming

hopefully they have learned that lesson!

[RC]

7. I saw a news report that she was shot from behind and the bullet exited from her forehead.

CBS Sunday Morning I think.

[ChazII]

9. That is what the doctors

at the U of A reported in the first press conference.

[kestrel91316]

3. Maybe a lawsuit for intentional infliction of emotional distress would teach

the slackers masquerading as journalists to do a better job.

But then, probably not. They are beyond hope.

[Cali_Democrat]

5. I can't believe the media proclaimed her dead when she wasn't

sick stuff.

[AlinPA]

8. The U.S. media is sick.

[regnaD kciN]

10. They did the same with James Brady...

It doesn't have anything to do with being "sick." It has to do with, in the aftermath of a story like this, rumors being rampant and some reporters falling for some of them. Look at the initial reports of the JFK assassination -- I remember one report that it was not a shooting, but someone throwing "small bombs" at the limousine.