Gabby Giffords

3 days ago - Giffords's intern, Daniel Hernández Jr., provided first-aid assistance to her immediately after she was wounded, and is credited with saving her life. She was quickly evacuated to the University Medical Center of Tucson in critical condition, though she was still conscious and "following commands."

April 14, 2020 - As she leads Giffords, Gabby continues to make remarkable progress in her recovery. She helps raise awareness about aphasia, the language impairment she has suffered from since her shooting.

January 14, 2011 - The following month she was released from the hospital, though she continued to receive treatment as an outpatient. In August Giffords returned to Washington, D.C., to vote for a bill that increased the debt ceiling. Three months later she and her husband published Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope (written with Jeffrey Zaslow).

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303K Followers, 400 Following, 1,327 Posts - Gabby Giffords (@gabbygiffords) on Instagram: "Co-founded @GIFFORDS_org. Proudly served Southern Arizona in the US Congress 2007-2012. Aphasia advocate. Married to @captmarkkelly."

Gabrielle Giffords, a rising star in the House Democratic Caucus, had her career tragically and prematurely cut short when she was nearly killed during an attempted assassination at a constituent event in Arizona. An advocate for border security, alternative energy development, and improved veterans’ benefits, Giffords took pride in her centrist record first in the Arizona legislature and then in Congress.

Gabrielle Giffords, 40, was shot just above her left eye, and while the exact path of the bullet was unknown Giffords' doctors said the bullet never crossed from one hemisphere of the brain to the other. While the path did leave doctors optimistic, Giffords' medical team also made clear the ...

In June 2011, Giffords was discharged from the hospital and eventually returned home to Tucson, where she continued her intensive speech and physical therapy. She also resumed some of the activities she loved before she was shot—like biking ...

June 2, 2009 - Gabrielle Giffords · @GabbyGiffords · · · Nov 4, 2024 · After I was shot, I had to relearn how to talk one word at a time. Today, I still struggle to speak but I have not lost my voice—and I’m using it to urge all Americans to vote for · @KamalaHarris and ·

This documentary from the directors of “RBG” offers a window into the life of the former Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords after she survived a bullet wound to the head.

November 18, 2022 - One of those voices that has spoken up in her own unique way is Gabby Giffords. In 2011, the trajectory of a 9-millimeter bullet through the left side of the brain changed the course of her life. The former congresswoman was one of 13 people wounded in a shooting in an Arizona supermarket parking lot.

1 week ago - WASHINGTON — Today, former ... the following statement reflecting on the 15 years since she survived a targeted assassination attempt and mass shooting....

Gabrielle Giffords, the Representative from Arizona - in Congress from 2007 through 2012

October 30, 2025 - She is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives. She was badly injured January 8, 2011, during a shooting in Tucson, Arizona after being shot in the head at very close range, but survived.

3 days ago - BROWN: Yeah. I can barely keep up with her - 60% travel. So Gabby was shot 15 years ago, and, you know, when she was first shot, she was in a coma, and she was in the hospital for many months.

April 23, 2021 - Giffords, who was on hand for the reading, claimed that she would one day to seek office again. In her letter, she told colleagues, "Every day I am working hard. I will recover and will return and we will work together again for Arizona and for all Americans." Her life-changing ordeal has only strengthened her marriage to Kelly, who retired from NASA in 2011. The couple penned a book together about her recovery, Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope, which was published in 2011.

After a 2011 shooting left her partly paralyzed and unable to speak fluently, former Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords turned her attention to gun control advocacy. Born and raised in Tucson, Arizona, Giffords spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar in Mexico after receiving her BA in Sociology and Latin American History from Scripps College in California in 1993.

September 17, 2025 - I asked Giffords what she does with her anger around such senseless violence and what her transition back into public life was like after being targeted for simply doing her job. “I won’t live my life in fear,” she says. “I’m alive—I survived an assassination attempt.