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Brokaw, Thomas John was born on February 6, 1940 in Webster, South Dakot. Son of Anthony Orville and Eugenia (Conley) Brokaw.
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In 1984, Tom Brokaw went to France to make a documentary marking the 40th anniversary of D day. Although he was thoroughly briefed on the historical background of the invasion, he was totally unprepared for how it would affect him emotionally. Flooded with childhood memories of World War II, Brokaw began asking veterans at a ceremony commemorating the event to revisit their past and talk about what happened, triggering a chain reaction of war-torn confessions and Brokaw's compulsion to capture their experiences in what he terms "the permanence a book would represent." After almost 15 years and hundreds of letters and interviews, Brokaw wrote The Greatest Generation, a representative cross-section of the stories he came across. It proved so popular that it soon spawned a sequel, The Greatest Generation Speaks.
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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 experience as he lived and observed it during the central decades of the twentieth century, Brokaw writes of his parents’ lives during the Great Depression, his boyhood along the Missouri River, the happy days of his adolescence in Yankton, and his early years in broadcast journalism on the cusp of the turbulent 1960s. As he recounts his own American pilgrimage, Tom Brokaw also explores what brought him and so many Americans to lead lives a long way from home, yet forever affected by it.
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correspondent Television broadcast executive
Brokaw, Thomas John was born on February 6, 1940 in Webster, South Dakot. Son of Anthony Orville and Eugenia (Conley) Brokaw.
Bachelor in Political Science, U. South Dakot, 1962; honorary degree, U. South Dakot honorary degree, Washington University, St. Louis honorary degree, Syracuse University honorary degree, Hofstra U. honorary degree, Boston College honorary degree, Emerson College honorary degree, Simpson College honorary degree, Duke U., 1991; honorary degree, Notre Dame U., 1993.
Morning news editor, Station Korean Music Television, Omaha, 1962-1965;
news editor, anchorman, Station WSB-television, Atlanta, 1965-1966;
reporter, correspondent, anchorman, Station National Broadcasting Company, Los Angeles, California-television, Los Angeles, 1966-1973;
White House correspondent, NBC, Washington, 1973-1976;
anchorman, Sat. Night News, New York City, 1973-1976;
host, Today show, New York City, 1976-1982;
anchorman, editor, NBC Nightly News, since 1982;
correspondent Exposé, NBC, since 1991. Correspondent NBC coverage United States Presidential elections, 1976, 80, anchor, 1984, 88.
Member of advisory committee Reporters Committee for Freedom of Press.
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Trustee Norton Simon Museum Art, Pasadena, California, U. South Dakot Foundation. Adviser Asia Society. Member American Federation television and Radio Artists (director 1968-1972), Sigma Delta Chi.
Married Meredith Lynn Auld, August 17, 1962. Children— Jennifer Jean, Andrea Brooks, Sarah Auld.
