Harry Whittington spent a week in the hospital after the accident, then later offered an apology for his role as the victim.
Harry Whittington, the attorney from Texas who survived a hunting accident in 2006 when then-U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney shot him in the face while tracking a passing bird, has died. He was 95.A longtime Republican supporter, Whittington attracted global attention after he was sprayed with more than 200 pellets from Cheney’s shotgun during a quail hunt on a private ranch in south Texas on Feb. 11, 2006.
“I’m the guy who pulled the trigger and shot my friend,” the vice president, then 65, said in the interview. “You can’t blame anybody else.” Whittington left the hospital with about 30 pellets still in his body, including one near his heart and another in his eye socket, as doctors considered their removal too risky.
Even President Bush managed to find humor in the matter when he met with the U.S. Military Academy’s 2005 men’s championship rifle team at the White House.
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