TRAGEDY for Brit Hume's Wife & Son
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00:00Britt got a life-changing call on a Monday morning in February 1998.
00:04He got the news that his son, Alexander Britton Sandy Jr., had taken his own life.
00:09Sandy was a reporter for The Hill in Washington, D.C.
00:13He'd been charged with drinking while impaired the previous night.
00:16He returned home and shot himself after being released from prison.
00:20Britt said,
00:21I was staggered by his loss. It's like something is amputated from you that is never going to be
00:26There's a sense of darkness that comes over you about life and the world.
00:30It's as if night time descends on your heart and you just have to get through it.
00:34Britt got an outpouring of sympathy when he returned to Special Report after Sandy's funeral.
00:39He remembers that, despite his address not being well-known,
00:42his mailbox was always full of letters of condolences and prayers.
00:46He says,
00:47I read every one of them. I wept over some of them. I smiled at some of them.
00:51I felt this powerful sense of gratitude about it.
00:54The National Press Club honors his son's memory every year.
00:57They established the Sandy Hume Memorial Award for Excellence in Political Journalism.