Gabby Giffords husband speaks about shooting for first time
Posted Jan 19, 2011 09:42:21 AM.
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Congresswoman Gabby Gifford’s husband sat down for an exclusive interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer. On Tuesday night’s edition of 20/20 astronaut Mark Kelly spoke about the fears his wife had even before the shooting incident in Tucson, Arizona.
He said Giffords had said she was worried that “Someday, somebody is going to come up to me at one of these events with a gun.”
Kelly said he believed for about 20 minutes that his wife was dead after viewing a mistaken TV report that said his wife had been fatally shot.
He learned that his wife was alive when Giffords’ mother, who was outside the operating room at the Tucson Hospital where the congresswoman was being treated.
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