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This eruption of political violence may have been the motive for such intense coverage but it hardly describes the majority of its content. There were scene-setting overviews of local prayers and mourning by NBC's Lester Holt and CBS anchor Katie Couric. ABC's Dan Harris filed thumbnail profiles of the six who were killed, ranging from Christina Green, a nine-year-old girl with "a precocious early interest in politics," to Federal Judge John Roll "who had just left Saturday morning mass."
All three anchors devoted time to extensive recreations of the crime scene itself. ABC's Diane Sawyer walked through a reenactment with Sheriff Clarence Dupnik of Pima County. NBC's Brian Williams profiled Daniel Hernandez, an intern of the congresswoman whose first aid helped save her life, and William Badger, a retired army colonel, who helped disarm the gunman. CBS' Couric introduced us to David and Nancy Bowman, a physician and a nurse, who were shopping nearby and rushed to the scene of the carnage to organize triage.
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