News and Public Media for North Central Florida
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Former First Lady Betty Ford remembered for opening discussion about breast cancer

The body of Betty Ford was placed on an Air Force jet for a final trip to Michigan, where the former first lady is to be laid to rest next to her late husband, President Gerald R. Ford. During her life Ford brought much attention to breast cancer after she openly discussed her own mastecomy resulting from the disease. Brittany Wienke reports.

http://www.wuft.org/media/audio/BreastCancerwrap.mp3

Brittany is a reporter for WUFT News and can be contacted by calling 352-392-6397 or emailing news@wuft.org.