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| Gabrielle Giffords |
These are the first images of a TV interview with the U.S. politician, who was ten months ago in an attack seriously injured on the head. The U.S. broadcaster ABC had accompanied the 41-year-old member of the U.S. House of Representatives in their struggle back into life, and her portrait painted not only with exclusive interview sequences but also with plenty of pathos and poignant songs. "Gabby and Mark - Courage and Hope" was the title of the ABC special broadcast of the famous US-host Diane Sawyer on Monday evening during prime time - was broadcast - and the upcoming release of Giffords' memoirs. The poster shows a right to broadcast in all the gaudy sunset gold and red. Prior to the kissing couple dream - "the best that America has to offer."
Frail, delicate and full of life
In addition to the first television interview that the physically challenged politician have in common with her husband, the NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, are in the show for the first time private video footage from the hospital in Houston to see. They show Gifford's incredible recovery, as they speak again after the first stop, go and nod even had to learn. You see a frail woman in a wheelchair, a huge scar on her forehead. Difficult one similarity to the energetic, blond Power-politician can be imagined, the Giffords was before the assassination. "You're sitting on a voice coach ...", begins a sentence. But anything that brings Giffords at this time on the lips is: "spoon". You can see a weeping woman who despairs that she lacks the words. But it is also the documentation of a small miracle. In fact, it is impressive how the hopeful, optimistic woman regained her life and months after the disaster with their nurses in the hospital to Cindy Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" sing.
"Gabrielle Giffords is too strong that it can be defeated by this attack," says her husband. The politician has actually confident and happy in this interview. Their gait is still unsteady. Instead she responds in complete sentences with different words. "Pretty good", she felt so Giffords smile. A month-long treatment was preceded by this TV interview. Two hours a day, they train hard to perfect their recovery, so the deputies. You can tell that she wants, but still can not. Of the reporter asked if she was ever angry about what happened to her, Gifford responds: "No, no, no life Life,". No, it is life.
On 8 January this year had her a deranged young man near the city of Tucson in Arizona, where the 41-year-old wanted to hold a public consultation, shot from about one meter distance in the head. The bullet pierced her brain and skull bones splintered. In front of the supermarket were also hit by a Giffords employees and pedestrians. Six people died, including a child of nine, thirteen more were injured. The shooter was later declared Jared Loughner for mental disorders for non-negotiable.
In addition to the first television interview that the physically challenged politician have in common with her husband, the NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, are in the show for the first time private video footage from the hospital in Houston to see. They show Gifford's incredible recovery, as they speak again after the first stop, go and nod even had to learn. You see a frail woman in a wheelchair, a huge scar on her forehead. Difficult one similarity to the energetic, blond Power-politician can be imagined, the Giffords was before the assassination. "You're sitting on a voice coach ...", begins a sentence. But anything that brings Giffords at this time on the lips is: "spoon". You can see a weeping woman who despairs that she lacks the words. But it is also the documentation of a small miracle. In fact, it is impressive how the hopeful, optimistic woman regained her life and months after the disaster with their nurses in the hospital to Cindy Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" sing.
"Gabrielle Giffords is too strong that it can be defeated by this attack," says her husband. The politician has actually confident and happy in this interview. Their gait is still unsteady. Instead she responds in complete sentences with different words. "Pretty good", she felt so Giffords smile. A month-long treatment was preceded by this TV interview. Two hours a day, they train hard to perfect their recovery, so the deputies. You can tell that she wants, but still can not. Of the reporter asked if she was ever angry about what happened to her, Gifford responds: "No, no, no life Life,". No, it is life.
On 8 January this year had her a deranged young man near the city of Tucson in Arizona, where the 41-year-old wanted to hold a public consultation, shot from about one meter distance in the head. The bullet pierced her brain and skull bones splintered. In front of the supermarket were also hit by a Giffords employees and pedestrians. Six people died, including a child of nine, thirteen more were injured. The shooter was later declared Jared Loughner for mental disorders for non-negotiable.
Media hype about America's dream team
Of this assassination and its return to life is also the book that is used today in the U.S. stores. Mark Kelly has written the story of his wife, who has lived since the assassination with a skull implant. In "Gabby - A story of courage and hope," the former commander of the Space Shuttle Endeavour writes of the shock, as some media his wife on 8 January declared dead. He writes of the days at her bedside, the fact that his wife actually had a few days after the assassination, an appointment for artificial insemination. And on the first memories of his wife, two months after the accident, which she described in three words: "Shot shock fear..." They had become panicky, as the eloquent politician commented that she can not speak. Mark Kelly said to her courage, even when they were still in a coma. He whispered in her ear how much he loved her. And überleben dass sie'll. The book ends with one of Gifford's self-written page. In short sentences, she promises there: "I will return."
Associated with the interview and the book publication, the U.S. media beat with dramatic stories present to the couple, whose fate surely needs no exaggeration. The U.S. magazine Esquire picked Mark Kelly, for example, as "American of the Year" for his title in December. The gossip magazine "People" subtitled the "incredible story" of America's new dream couple.
Of this assassination and its return to life is also the book that is used today in the U.S. stores. Mark Kelly has written the story of his wife, who has lived since the assassination with a skull implant. In "Gabby - A story of courage and hope," the former commander of the Space Shuttle Endeavour writes of the shock, as some media his wife on 8 January declared dead. He writes of the days at her bedside, the fact that his wife actually had a few days after the assassination, an appointment for artificial insemination. And on the first memories of his wife, two months after the accident, which she described in three words: "Shot shock fear..." They had become panicky, as the eloquent politician commented that she can not speak. Mark Kelly said to her courage, even when they were still in a coma. He whispered in her ear how much he loved her. And überleben dass sie'll. The book ends with one of Gifford's self-written page. In short sentences, she promises there: "I will return."
Associated with the interview and the book publication, the U.S. media beat with dramatic stories present to the couple, whose fate surely needs no exaggeration. The U.S. magazine Esquire picked Mark Kelly, for example, as "American of the Year" for his title in December. The gossip magazine "People" subtitled the "incredible story" of America's new dream couple.
