Kimberly Dozier
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Kimberly Dozier (born July 6, 1966) is a contributing writer to The Daily Beast and a contributor to CNN.[1] She was previously a correspondent for the Associated Press, covering intelligence and counterterrorism, and prior to that, a CBS News correspondent for 17 years based mostly overseas. She was stationed in Baghdad as the chief reporter in Iraq for CBS News for nearly three years prior to being critically wounded on May 29, 2006. She is General Omar N. Bradley Chair in Strategic Leadership, at the Army War College, Penn State Law and Dickinson College.[2]
Biography
Dozier was born in
Dozier attended
From 1996 through 1998, Dozier was an anchor for
Dozier started as a stringer for CBS Radio News, later becoming a network TV correspondent for the CBS Evening News. As part of that progression, from February 2002 through August 2003, Dozier was the chief correspondent for WCBS-TV (New York)'s Middle East bureau in Jerusalem, where she covered the ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the war in Iraq, before being hired by CBS anchor Dan Rather and reassigned to Baghdad.
After Dozier was injured in Iraq in 2006, CBS gave her temporary assignments covering the Pentagon, the White House and Capitol Hill, for CBS News' Washington, D.C., bureau, from 2007 to 2010, as they were reluctant to let her return to war zones. She left CBS and television reluctantly to become the Intelligence Writer for
In April 2008, Dozier received a
Dozier received a 2008
Dozier and ABC News anchor
Injury in Iraq
Dozier was seriously injured in Iraq on May 29, 2006 in a car bomb attack that killed an American soldier, the 4th ID's Captain James "Alex" Funkhouser, an Iraqi translator, and CBS crewmembers Paul Douglas (Cameraman) and James Brolan (Sound Technician).[6] She was transferred to Germany for further treatment.
Most of the patrol was outside their parked Humvees in a residential Baghdad neighborhood. Insurgents waited until the patrol approached the car bomb, packed with an estimated five hundred pounds (230 kg) of explosives, before remotely detonating it. The captain, translator and CBS crew were closest to the explosion.
Dozier underwent more than two dozen major surgeries in the two months following the bombing. Doctors removed shrapnel from her head, rebuilt her shattered femurs, and applied skin grafts to extensive burns on both legs. Dozier was first treated at the Baghdad Combat Support Hospital, and the medical facility at Balad, Iraq, before being medevacked to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, the U.S. military's largest overseas hospital.[7]
Although Dozier was unable to speak because she was on a respirator, she was able to write to communicate; the first question she asked regarded the crew. On June 7, 2006, she returned to the United States for further treatment at the
Coincidentally, in April 2004, Dozier had been featured in a USA Today article on the safety of journalists covering the Iraq War.[8]
Fully recovered from her injuries, Dozier ran the 10K of the 2008 U.S. Marine Corps Marathon to raise money for Fisher House, which provides a place to stay for loved ones of the combat-injured. Proceeds of her 2011 paperback and e-book and funds from speaking to military-related organizations went to a number of charities including NSWKids.org and WoundedWear.org, and/or to donate thousands of copies of her book to patients and families going through similar medical crises.
Dozier wrote about survivor's guilt and post-traumatic growth in the bomb's aftermath: The Washington Post,[9] Newsweek[10]
- Book
Dozier wrote a book, Breathing the Fire: Fighting to Survive, and Get Back to the Fight, which chronicles both her physical and emotional recovery from the IED explosion on Memorial Day 2006 in Iraq. Breathing the Fire was published in May 2008.[11] It was reissued in 2011.[12] In the book, Dozier pieces together her own memories of the explosion and recovery with reports from her doctors, nurses, family members and even rescuers about her condition.[13]
Bibliography
- Breathing the Fire: Fighting to Report--and Survive--the War in Iraq, Meredith Books, 2008, ISBN 9780696238376
- "Can a White House envoy deliver Afghan peace for Trump?". Time Magazine. 195 (7–8) (International ed.): 10. March 2–9, 2020.
References
- ^ "Author Page Kimberly Dozier". The Daily Beast. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
- ^ "Kimberly Dozier, Inspirational Speaker, Keppler Speakers Bureau". Retrieved 25 September 2014.
- ^ "Kimberly Dozier Bio". ABC News. May 29, 2006.
- ^ "67th Annual Peabody Awards". Retrieved 25 September 2014.
- ^ a b "Kimberly Dozier: Breathing The Fire - Pritzker Military Museum & Library - Chicago".
- ^ "Iraqi PM Appeals For Reconciliation". CBS News. February 24, 2003. Archived from the original on September 20, 2003. Retrieved May 29, 2006.
- ^ a b Joel Roberts (August 3, 2006). "CBS' Kimberly Dozier Leaves Hospital". CBS News.
- ^ "Story in Iraq: Fear for safety". USA Today. April 13, 2004. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
- ^ Dozier, Kimberly (September 30, 2007). "What I Faced After Iraq". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2007-10-01.
- ^ Dozier, Kimberly (May 26, 2008). "Technically, I was dead: A reporter, wounded in Iraq, fights to keep people from looking away". Newsweek. Retrieved 2008-11-10.
- ISBN 9780696238376
- ISBN 9781565236158
- ^ "Interview". Retrieved 25 September 2014.
External links
- Official website
- Kimberly Dozier at IMDb
- Appearances on C-SPAN