“It takes a long time to adjust and say goodbye to some things you did and say hello to new ones,” Woodruff said. He noted how his father, rescued in war-torn Manila in 1945 and who died at age 89 less than a month before Ben’s deployment to Ukraine, both had their lives saved by the U.S.
Hall’s book captures this great escape, much of it reconstructed through his later reporting. He was fortunate to get a ride on a diplomats’ train out of Kyiv to Poland, where he was evacuated to the American military treatment facility in Landstuhl, Germany. He lost his right leg below the knee, much of his left foot, the sight in his left eye, his left thumb was blown off, his skull was dented and he was burned over much of his body. Hall’s two colleagues on the reporting trip, photographer Pierre Zakrzewski and Ukrainian “fixer” Oleksandra “Sasha” Kuvshynova, were both killed.Įven after escaping and being taken to a Kyiv hospital, Hall’s survival was by no means assured. Whether it was my daughter or whether it was an angel, I don’t have an answer for that.” I was in the middle seat of a small car - it’s the death seat - somehow I came out of it, and I’m still alive. The voice was insistent: “Daddy, you’ve got to get out of the car.” Hall obeyed, just before the third bomb hit, setting him afire. He swears it was his daughter, Honor, then at home in London with her mother and sisters Iris and Hero. No story compares with the voice he heard when the second of three bombs left him torn apart and blacked out. There was the Ukrainian special forces officer driving by after the bombing who saw Hall’s wave and put him in a car, the lucky train ride from Kyiv to Poland, the 30 - and counting - surgeries he’s endured as he heals from the March 14, 2022, incident. Truth is, it was probably several miracles that enabled Hall to sit in a cafe at Fox’s New York headquarters recently to discuss the book he’d written about his ordeal. NEW YORK (AP) - A year after nearly being killed by Russian bombs while covering the war in Ukraine, Fox News’ Benjamin Hall credits a relentless optimism - and what he describes as an unexplained miracle - for getting him through.
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