No one knows the danger of war reporting better than Bob Woodruff.

Only a month after being named anchor of ABC World News Tonight in December 2005 — succeeding the late Peter Jennings — Woodruff suffered a traumatic brain injury from a roadside bomb while reporting in Iraq.

Bob Woodruff in Fresno

What: San Joaquin Valley Town Hall

Where: Saroyan Theatre, 700 M Street, downtown Fresno

When: 10:30 a.m.

Tickets: Can be purchased at this link.

Woodruff recovered and continues to report. The lawyer-turned-reporter appears in Fresno for the San Joaquin Valley Town Hall lecture series on Wednesday, Oct. 15.

GV Wire spoke with Woodruff to preview his appearance, titled “Covering Conflict & Championing Our Veterans.”

“I’m going to talk about what we were doing over in Iraq when this war w

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