Sarah Brady, wife of former White House press secretary Jim Brady, dies at 73

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James Brady, Reagan, police officer Thomas Delahanty and Secret Service Agent Timothy McCarthy were shot March 30, 1981, as they left the Washington Hilton Hotel. Jim Brady was seriously injured by the assassination attempt on then-President Ronald Reagan and confined to a wheelchair after the incident. He and his wife, Sarah, went on to become dedicated advocates for gun control, and he became the namesake for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

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She was 73."Sarah courageously stepped up after Jim was shot to prevent others from enduring what our family has gone through, and her work has saved countless lives," the family's statement read. In 1961, at 23, Ms. Timmins had become the first person ever to hold the title of press secretary to an American first lady when she joined the staff of Jacqueline Kennedy. It was a post that made her a witness to considerable glamour and considerable tragedy. Snow was born in Berea, Kentucky, and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father, Jim, was a social studies teacher, guidance counselor, and an assistant principal at Princeton High School. His mother was an inner-city nurse who died of colon cancer in 1973, when Snow was 17.

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The announcement, which Mr. Kim posted on social media that afternoon, kicked off perhaps the luckiest Senate campaign in modern New Jersey history. Over the next six months, Mr. Kim went from underdog to front-runner, outmaneuvering Tammy Murphy, the wife of Gov. Philip D. Murphy, who joined the race in November and quickly won the support of New Jersey’s powerful Democratic Party machine. “He got shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals at the time. They never recovered his body, but the government went back when I went down there and they checked and found some parts of the plane,” Biden told reporters in Scranton, where he was born and lived off and on until he was 10 years old. Brady was unable to work as White House press secretary but remained in the position until the end of the Reagan administration with Larry Speakes and Marlin Fitzwater performing the job on an "acting" or "deputy" basis.

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"Laura and I are deeply saddened by the death of our dear friend Tony Snow," President Bush said in a written statement. "The Snow family has lost a beloved husband and father. And America has lost a devoted public servant and a man of character." "I've known or worked with a lot of press secretaries, White House press secretaries, in my 40 years in Washington, and I'd have to say that Tony's the best," Cheney said on "FOX News Sunday," the show first hosted by Snow. The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, known as the Brady Bill or the Brady Law, was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1993. It required a five-day waiting period and background checks for handgun purchases. He had been partially paralyzed and in a wheelchair since the assassination attempt, and his speech was slurred.

"One of the reasons I took this job is not only to work with the president, but, believe it or not, to work with all of you," Snow told reporters when he stepped into the post in 2006. As a TV pundit and commentator for FOX News, Snow often was critical of Bush before he became the president's third press secretary, following Ari Fleischer and Scott McClellan. He was an instant study in the job, mastering the position — and the White House press corps — with apparent ease. We found several other videos of this “Theodore Barrett”, a character created by The Onion, holding press conferences on its official YouTube channel. One video from December 2008 shows a press conference held by Barrett in a similar fashion - this time about the President’s strategy to defeat a monster seen in Manhattan.

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He was the first press secretary, by his own accounting, to travel the country raising money for Republican candidates. He resigned from the White House six months later, in September 2007, citing not his health but a need to earn more than the $168,000 a year he was paid in the government post. He was replaced by his deputy, Dana Perino, Bush's current press secretary.

It is a still image of police body-camera footage from the scene where a Colorado woman was injured after a freight train hit the parked police vehicle in which she was detained. The same image can be seen in news reports from the time in the Denver Post and the Washington Post. The Onion also created the character of Deputy Press Secretary Debra Browning, and here is a satirical news video featuring her.

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"Our hearts and our thoughts go to the family members of the Queen, goes to the people of the United Kingdom," she said. As a commentator, he had not always been on the president's side. He once called Bush "something of an embarrassment" in conservative circles and criticized what he called Bush's "lackluster" domestic policy.

"The White House has lost a great friend and a great colleague," said Perino in a statement released to the media. "We all loved watching him at the podium, but most of all we learned how to love our families and treat each other." His tenure at the White House lasted 17 months and was interrupted by his second bout with cancer. Bush said he and the first lady went to church Sunday and prayed for Snow's family.

Snow developed an early interest in journalism, public policy, and politics, and was editor of his high school newspaper. The press secretary cut short follow-up questions, citing the presidential plane’s approach to the Philadelphia airport. Jean-Pierre told reporters aboard Air Force One that the 81-year-old president was merely expressing how “incredibly proud” he was of Finnegan when Biden suggested New Guinea natives had eaten him in 1944. Secret Service and police officers forced Hinckley to the ground and arrested him.

As a candidate for president, Dwight D. Eisenhower tapped James Hagerty, a former reporter for the New York Times, to be his press secretary.[12] Hagerty had previously been press secretary for New York governor Thomas E. Dewey during his two tries for the presidency. After he won election, Eisenhower appointed Hagerty to be White House press secretary. After taking time off to recuperate, Snow joined CNN as a political commentator early this year. As he announced Snow as his new press secretary in May 2006, Bush praised him as "a man of courage [and] a man of integrity." Snow presided over some of the toughest fights of Bush's presidency, defending the administration during the Iraq war and the CIA leak investigation. During a tenure marked by friendly jousting with journalists, Snow often danced around the press corps, occasionally correcting their grammar and speech even as he responded to their questions.

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The practice of regularly scheduled presidential news conference was instituted during the Eisenhower administration. Hagerty abolished the longstanding rule that the president could not be directly quoted without permission—for the first time, everything that the president said at a press conference could be printed verbatim. Critics suggested Snow was turning the traditionally informational daily briefing into a personality-driven media event short on facts and long on confrontation.

The episode depicts the media misreporting Brady having died before issuing the correction that he is still alive. Snow had his colon removed and underwent six months of chemotherapy after he was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2005. In 2007 he announced his cancer had recurred and spread to his liver, and he had a malignant growth removed from his abdominal area. "Tony did his job with more flair than almost any press secretary before him," said William McGurn, Bush's former chief speechwriter. "He loved the give-and-take. But that was possible only because Tony was a man of substance who had real beliefs and principles that he was more than able to defend." John Hinckley Jr. was found not guilty by reason of insanity of the attempted assassination of President Reagan and of related charges.

The two started the campaign after Jim was wounded in the assassination attempt on President Reagan. Snow was the primary guest host of Rush Limbaugh's program beginning in the mid-1990s. Snow's own Tony Snow Show on Fox News Radio premiered in late 2003.

The medical examiner's autopsy found the cause of death to be the gunshot wound and its consequences. Wrapping up her statement, Psaki turned to the White House reporters she said "challenged" and "pushed me" throughout her time in the high-pressure role. WASHINGTON (WLS) -- Sarah Brady, the wife of the former White House press secretary Jim Brady, has died at the age of 73. Another photo included in other versions of this claim is a screenshot from body camera footage showing Memphis police officers beating 29-year-old Tyre Nichols on Jan. 7, as reported by NPR. Nichols later died at a hospital, and his death prompted protests around the country.

“We know Sarah will be missed by all those whose lives she touched and who were so inspired by her commitment to her late husband Jim and to the cause of reducing gun violence in our country. Sarah Brady showed us not only what a tireless fight for common sense looks like, but also what it means to be a loving spouse and caretaker in the wake of a senseless tragedy,” the statement read. The couple became tireless advocates to end gun violence and successfully campaigned to get a law passed that requires background checks for handgun purchases.