BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: CNN is celebrating 20 years of bringing news to the world this year, and we're marking the occasion with a look back. Today, the big story on January 6, 1994.</s>NICK CHARLES, CNN SR. SPORTS CORRESPONDENT: I remember coming in to the office and thinking this is one of the most ghastly things I'd ever seen in sports.</s>NANCY KERRIGAN, FIGURE SKATER: When I went through the curtain for some reason I must have heard something behind me, I turned around, and when I was turning I saw -- just someone running by me and he just like whacked me with this long black stick.</s>CHARLES: I just remember that cry "Why me," as soon as she was hit on the knee. It struck me. It was literally -- really was an emotional blow, I think, for everybody.</s>BRENDA KERRIGAN, MOTHER: I can't believe that one human being would deliberately hurt her.</s>CHARLES: And as the tale began to unfold, it just got ghastlier by the minute.</s>BOBBIE BATTISTA, CNN ANCHOR: Harding bodyguard Shawn Eric Eckardt told investigators that he and Harding's husband setup last Thursday's attack on Kerrigan.</s>TONYA HARDING, FIGURE SKATER: I don't know for sure anything about what's going on at all, you know, of course I am going to cooperate. I mean, I don't have anything to hide. I want the person to be caught as much as anybody else does.</s>CHARLES: I have to say this event was unprecedented in terms of shattering the ideal of sportsmanship. They went way off the deep-end in this one.
CNN 20: Nancy Kerrigan Attack, January 6, 1994