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...heart surgeon in his former life, got word of the shootings and raced across to the scene as medics poured in from the ambulances outside. He worked to resuscitate first one victim, then another. "I was really just focused on keeping their hearts and lungs moving," he said. Gibson was hustled out to a helicopter and whisked away to Washington Hospital Center; DeLay gathered his staff to pray for the officer. Frist meanwhile stayed with Weston, unaware that he was the shooter, helping to keep him ventilated as they rode in the ambulance to D.C. General Hospital...
Around 30 House-leadership staff members were inside, cleaning up the week's business after the final big health-care vote, toasting their success with champagne. DeLay himself was back in his private office. His plainclothes guard, Special Agent John Gibson, 42, was sitting near the rear entrance when the normal merry chaos of the afternoon was punctured by sharp explosions in the hall. Gibson knew it was gunfire and had his hand on his hip as he moved toward the door. A leadership staff member yelled "Everybody get down, get down!" and pushed people under the desks and into...
Weston came charging into DeLay's suite, already hit by the hail of fire from the other cops at the entrance. "They were laying down some lead," says a staff member who was inside. Gibson, also an 18-year veteran, saw the gun and did it by the book. He yelled, "Drop your weapon!" Weston got off two shots, hitting Gibson in the leg and chest; Gibson shot him in the leg, and both men went down, Weston's gun landing on a staff member's desk. DeLay burst from his office at the sound of the shooting and began...
...Friday, the flag flying over the Capitol was lowered to half-staff. House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Florida Senator Connie Mack visited Gibson's family at the hospital and stopped at the Chestnuts' home to see the officer's wife and children. Gingrich told them their father was a hero. But tragedy did not distract some politicians from the opportunities at hand: by 6:30, staff members for New Jersey Senator Robert Torricelli were distributing a press release to reporters calling for tighter gun control. Weston, after emergency surgery during the night, lapsed into a coma and was placed...
...five months ago, when Bond took over as chairman. Meanwhile, former Baltimore Congressman Kweisi Mfume, the hapless Chavis' replacement as executive director, has proved to be an adept fund raiser and effective lobbyist. Bond's predecessor as chairman, Myrlie Evers-Williams, did such a good job of cleaning up Gibson's mess that Bond is free to devote himself to the organization's true mission: fighting for racial justice. He's the right man for the job: a charismatic civil rights hero since the 1960s, when he served as spokesman for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Since then...