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Tom Brokaw served as the anchor for NBC Nightly News from 1982 to 2004, eventually becoming America's most-watched news anchor during the late-1990s and retaining that title until his retirement.
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Fast Facts
- Birth name: Thomas John Brokaw
- Born: February 6, 1940
- Birthplace: Webster, South Dakota
- Former anchor: NBC Nightly News
- Retired: December 4, 2004
- Spouse: Meredith Lynn Auld
- Children: Jennifer Jean, Andra Brooks, Sara Auld
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Career
Brokaw began his journalism career in 1962 at KMTV in Omaha, Nebraska. In 1965, he anchored the late evening news on WSB-TV in Atlanta before moving to KNBC-TV in Los Angeles in 1966. From 1973-1976 he was an NBC News White House correspondent, covering the Watergate scandal.In 1976, he joined The Today Show where he remained until 1981 when he joined NBC Nightly News as co-anchor with Roger Mudd. When Mudd left to host Meet the Press and American Almanac, Brokaw remained as sole anchor of Nightly News until his retirement in 2004.
Brokaw continues to contribute to NBC News as a special correspondent, providing election analysis along with Tim Russert, Brian Williams, Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann.
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rt @TimJensen It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. - Tom Brokaw
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LOL @PortaPocketGal I don't know. Perhaps we should ask my ex--Fake Tom Brokaw!
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RT @lorikeith: amen X 2 RT @TimJensen It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. - Tom Brokaw
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It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. Tom Brokaw
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RT @TimJensen: It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. - Tom Brokaw
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The Greatest Generation with Tom Brokaw Boxed Set - $29.98
In this superb documentary, Tom Brokaw travels America to tell the stories of individual men and women. You will meet people whose stories and everyday lives reveal how a generation preserved freedom in World War II and went on to build mod...
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1968 with Tom Brokaw (History Channel) - $24.95
1968 was a year of extraordinary tragedy, triumph, and transformation. The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy failed to halt the juggernaut of the Civil Rights Movement. Richard Nixon was elected President follo...
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A Long Way from Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland in the Forties and Fifties - $13.95
In A Long Way from Home, Tom Brokaw describes his childhood and youth in South Dakota, and the people and places in the American heartland of the 1940s and 1950s that continue to shape his life today. As he reflects on the American e...
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