Bob Woodruff

Robert Warren "Bob" Woodruff (born August 18, 1961) is an American television journalist. His career in journalism dates back to 1989, and he is widely known for succeeding Peter Jennings as co-anchor of ABC News's weekday news broadcast, World News Tonight, in December 2005. In January 2006, he was critically wounded by a roadside bomb in Iraq.

Personal life

Woodruff was born on August 18, 1961, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, the son of Frances Ann (Dawson) and Robert Norman Woodruff Jr., real estate agents. He married Lee McConaughy in 1988, and they have four children.

Woodruff graduated from the private Cranbrook Kingswood school in 1979. He earned a B.A. in 1983 from Colgate University, where he also played lacrosse—finishing his career with 184 points, second all-time at Colgate. Woodruff earned a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1987. He is an alumnus of Theta Chi Fraternity.

After graduating from law school, Woodruff worked as a bankruptcy associate at Shearman & Sterling. In 1989, while he was teaching law in Beijing, CBS News hired him as an on-screen interpreter during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Shortly thereafter, he left law practice and became a full-time correspondent, initially working for several local stations, then moving to ABC News in 1996.

Bob Woodruff (disambiguation)

Bob Woodruff (b. 1961) is an American television journalist.

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Bob Woodruff (American football)

George Robert Woodruff (March 14, 1916 – 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 director at the University of Tennessee.

Early life and education

Woodruff was born in Athens, Georgia in 1916, and attended high school in Savannah, Georgia. After high school, he enrolled at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where he played tackle for the Tennessee Volunteers football team under legendary head coach Robert Neyland. Woodruff graduated from Tennessee in 1939.

Coaching career

Tennessee, Army and Georgia Tech assistant coach

Woodruff stayed in Knoxville after he graduated from the University of Tennessee, working as an assistant coach under Neyland during the 1939, 1940 and 1941 football seasons. During World War II, he was an officer in U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and served as an assistant football coach under Earl Blaik at West Point in 1944 and 1945. He was discharged from the Army as a major in 1946, and accepted an assistant coaching position under Bobby Dodd at Georgia Tech. The 1939 and 1940 Volunteers teams had ranked among the top five in the final Associated Press (AP) football poll; the AP declared the Cadets national champions in 1944 and 1945. Woodruff gained the experience of being a part of three great college coaching staffs.

Bob Woodruff (singer)

Bob Woodruff (born March 14, 1961 in New York City) is a critically acclaimed American country music singer and songwriter. Initially, he was a member of a country rock band called The Fields before beginning a career as a solo artist. He released four studio albums (1994's Dreams & Saturday Nights, 1997's Desire Road, 2011's The Lost Kerosene Tapes, 1999 and 2013's The Year We Tried to Kill the Pain ) and has charted two singles on the Billboard country music charts, as well as a third on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada. Woodruff's second album included covers of songs by John Fogerty and Arthur Alexander. His latest album, The Year We Tried To Kill The Pain, was released in Europe in September 2013 and debuted at #1 on the EuroAmericana Chart in November 2013.

Discography

Albums

Singles

Music videos

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