Dick Cheney hunting incident
Saturday, February 11, 2006
On Saturday afternoon, Harry Whittington had just made two great shots — "a double, two birds with two shots" recalled Pamela Pitzer Willeford. He had dropped back to retrieve the quail, and, she said, "the vice president and I started walking forward." "We did not know it, but Harry came up on us to the right." Moments later, Whittington was down, felled by a blast of birdshot fired by Vice President Dick Cheney.
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President Bush knew Saturday evening that Vice President Dick Cheney had accidentally shot a hunting companion, but the information wasn’t made public until the next day by a private citizen, the White House acknowledged Monday.
The political echoes from a single shotgun blast on the Texas prairie continued to reverberate across the nation Tuesday, growing especially loud in the nation's capital as journalists scrambled to piece together the full story behind Vice President Dick Cheney's accidental Saturday shooting of a hunting companion.
The fellow hunter who was shot and wounded by Vice President Dick Cheney has suffered a minor heart attack after a piece of birdshot migrated to his heart, a hospital spokesman said Tuesday.