Tom Brokaw Explained

Tom Brokaw
Birth Name:Thomas John Brokaw
Birth Date:6 February 1940
Birth Place:Webster, South Dakota, U.S.
Education:University of South Dakota (BA)
Occupation:Television journalist
Author
Years Active:1960–2021
Children:3
Employer:NBC (1966–2021)
Credits:Today co-anchor
(1976–1981)
NBC Nightly News anchor
(1982–2004)
NBC News Special Correspondent
(2004–2021)
Meet the Press moderator
(2008)[1]
Term:Anchor of NBC Nightly News
Predecessor:John Chancellor
Successor:Brian Williams
Signature:Tom Brokaw signature (cropped).jpg

Thomas John Brokaw (; born February 6, 1940)[2] is an American retired network television journalist and author. He first served as the co-anchor of The Today Show from 1976 to 1981 with Jane Pauley, then as the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News for 22 years (1982–2004). In the previous decade he served as a weekend anchor for the program from 1973 to 1976. He is the only person to have hosted all three major NBC News programs: The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, and, briefly, Meet the Press. He formerly held a special correspondent post for NBC News.

Along with his competitors Peter Jennings at ABC News, and Dan Rather at CBS News, Brokaw was one of the "Big Three" U.S. news anchors during the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s.[3] All three hosted their networks' flagship nightly news programs for more than 20 years.

Brokaw has also written several books on American history and society in the 20th century including The Greatest Generation (1998). He occasionally writes and narrates documentaries for other outlets.[4] In 2021, NBC announced that Brokaw would retire after 55 years at the network, one of the longest standing anchors in the world at the same news network.

Brokaw is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including the two Peabody Awards; two Emmy Awards; the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which was awarded to him by President Barack Obama in 2014;[5] and the French Legion of Honor in 2016.

Early life

Brokaw was born in Webster, South Dakota, the son of Eugenia "Jean" (née Conley; 1917–2011),[6] who worked in sales and as a post-office clerk, and Anthony Orville "Red" Brokaw (1912–1982).[7] He was the eldest of their three sons (brothers named William and Michael) and named for his maternal great-grandfather, Thomas Conley.

His father was a descendant of Huguenot immigrants Bourgon and Catherine (née Le Fèvre) Broucard, and his mother was Irish American.[8] [9] His paternal great-grandfather, Richard P. Brokaw, founded the town of Bristol, South Dakota, and the Brokaw House, a small hotel and the first structure in Bristol.[10]

Brokaw's father was a construction foreman for the Army Corps of Engineers. He worked at the Black Hills Ordnance Depot (BHOD) and helped construct Fort Randall Dam; his job often required the family to resettle throughout South Dakota during Brokaw's early childhood.[11] The Brokaws lived for short periods in Bristol, Igloo (the small residential community of the BHOD), and Pickstown, before settling in Yankton, where Brokaw attended high school.

As a high school student attending Yankton Senior High School, Brokaw was governor of South Dakota American Legion Boys State, and in that capacity he accompanied then-South Dakota Governor Joe Foss to New York City for a joint appearance on a TV game show. It was to be the beginning of a long relationship with Foss, whom Brokaw would later feature in his book about World War II veterans, The Greatest Generation. Brokaw also became an Advisory Board member of the Joe Foss Institute.[12]

Brokaw matriculated at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, but dropped out after a year as he apparently failed to keep up in his studies, in his words majoring in "beer and co-eds".[13] In 2010, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University, and he later donated his papers to the University of Iowa Libraries. He joked that the "honorary degree is especially coveted because it helps to make up for the uneven (to put it mildly) performance of my freshman year." He later transferred to the University of South Dakota, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1962 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science.[14]

For several years, Brokaw mountain-climbed with the "Do Boys", whose members included Yvon Chouinard and Douglas Tompkins.[15] [16] He owned a home on 53 acres in Pound Ridge, New York, for over two decades.[17]

Broadcasting career

1966–1981: early years

Brokaw's television career began at KTIV in Sioux City, Iowa, followed by stints at KMTV in Omaha, Nebraska, and WSB-TV in Atlanta.[18] In 1966 he joined NBC News, reporting from Los Angeles and anchoring the 11:00 p.m. news for KNBC. In 1973, NBC made Brokaw White House correspondent, covering the Watergate scandal, and anchor of the Saturday editions of Nightly News. He became co-host (with Jane Pauley) of NBC's Today Show in 1976 and remained in the job until 1981, when he was succeeded by Bryant Gumbel.

He kept a closely guarded secret for many years: in 2017 Brokaw wrote of having been offered – and having promptly turned down – the press secretary position in the Nixon White House in 1969. While living in California before Nixon made his political comeback, Brokaw had come to know H. R. 'Bob' Haldeman (White House chief of staff and initiator of the offer) as well as Nixon's press secretary, Ron Ziegler, and others members of the White House staff.[19]

In 2019, Brokaw wrote a book entitled The Fall of Richard Nixon: A Reporter Remembers Watergate, about his experiences working as a reporter and member of the White House press corps.[20]

1982–2004: NBC Nightly News

On April 5, 1982, Brokaw began co-anchoring NBC Nightly News from New York with Roger Mudd in Washington, succeeding John Chancellor. After a year, NBC News president Reuven Frank concluded that the dual-anchor program was not working and selected Brokaw to be sole anchor.[21] The NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw commenced on September 5, 1983. Among other news items, he covered the Challenger disaster,[22] EDSA Revolution, the June Struggle, Loma Prieta earthquake,[23] fall of the Berlin Wall,[24] and Hurricane Andrew.[25]

Brokaw scored a major coup when, on November 9, 1989, he was the first English-language broadcast journalist to report the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Brokaw attended a televised press conference organized in East Berlin by Günter Schabowski, press spokesman for East German Politburo, which had just decided to allow its citizens to apply to permanently leave the country through its border with West Germany. When Schabowski was asked when this loosening of regulations would take effect, he glanced through his notes, then said, "sofort, unverzüglich" ("immediately, without delay"), touching off a stampede of East Berliners to the Wall. Brokaw had an interview with Schabowski after the press conference, who repeated his "immediately" statement when pressed. Later that evening Brokaw reported from the west side of Brandenburg Gate on this announcement and the pandemonium that had broken out in East Berlin because of it.[26]

As anchor, Brokaw conducted the first one-on-one American television interviews with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Russian President Vladimir Putin. He and Katie Couric hosted a prime-time newsmagazine, Now, that aired from 1993 to 1994 before being folded into the multi-night Dateline NBC program.[27]

Also, in 1993, on the first broadcast of Late Show with David Letterman on CBS, in response to David Letterman's monologue containing jokes about NBC, Brokaw walked on stage in a surprise cameo (accompanied by Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra playing the NBC Nightly News theme).[28] He congratulated Letterman on his new show and wished him well, but also stated he was disappointed and shocked; he subsequently walked over to the man holding the cue cards, took two, and remarked, "These last two jokes are the intellectual property of NBC!", leaving the stage afterwards.[28] Letterman then remarked, "Who would have thought you would ever hear the words 'intellectual property' and 'NBC' in the same sentence?"[28]

In 1996 Brokaw made the following statement about Richard Jewell's suspected involvement in the 1996 Olympic Park bombing, after which Jewell sued NBC News:

Even though NBC stood by its story, the network agreed to pay Jewell $500,000.

On September 11, 2001, Brokaw joined Katie Couric and Matt Lauer around 9:30 a.m., following the live attack on the South Tower of the World Trade Center, and continued to anchor all day, until after midnight. Following the collapse of the second tower, Brokaw observed: "This is war. This is a declaration and an execution of an attack on the United States."[29] [30] He continued to anchor coverage to midnight on the following two days. Later that month, a letter containing anthrax was addressed to him as part of the 2001 anthrax attacks. Brokaw was not harmed, but two NBC News employees were infected. In 2008, he testified before the Commission on Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism about the anthrax attacks, publicly discussing his experiences for the first time in a detailed, day-by-day account.[31] [32]

In 2002, NBC announced that Brokaw would retire as anchor of the NBC Nightly News following the 2004 Presidential election, to be succeeded by Brian Williams. Brokaw would remain with NBC News in a part-time capacity from that point onwards, serving as an analyst and anchoring and producing documentary programs. Brokaw closed his final Nightly News broadcast in front of 15.7 million viewers on NBC on December 1, 2004, by saying:

By the end of his time as Nightly News anchor, Brokaw was regarded as the most popular news personality in the United States. Nightly News had moved into first place in the Nielsen ratings in late 1996[33] and held on to the spot for the remainder of Brokaw's tenure on the program, placing him ahead of ABC's Peter Jennings and World News Tonight, and CBS's Dan Rather and the CBS Evening News. Along with Jennings and Rather, Brokaw helped usher in the era of the TV news anchor as a lavishly compensated, globe-trotting star in the 1980s. The magnitude of a news event could be measured by whether Brokaw and his counterparts on the other two networks showed up on the scene. Brokaw's retirement in December 2004, followed by Rather's ousting from the CBS Evening News in March 2005, and Jennings's death in August 2005, brought that era to a close.[34]

2004–2021: after Nightly News

After leaving the anchor chair, Brokaw remained at NBC as Special Correspondent, providing periodic reports for Nightly News. He served as an NBC analyst during the 2008 presidential election campaign[35] and moderated the second presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain at Belmont University. He reported documentaries for the Discovery Channel and the History Channel and in 2006 delivered one of the eulogies during the state funeral of former President Gerald R. Ford.

On June 13, 2008, when NBC interrupted its regular programming to announce the sudden death of NBC News Washington Bureau Chief and Meet the Press moderator Tim Russert, Brokaw served as the announcer. A week later, NBC announced that Brokaw would serve as host of Meet the Press on an interim basis. He was succeeded by David Gregory in December 2008.

Brokaw serves on the board of directors of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Committee to Protect Journalists, the International Rescue Committee, and the Mayo Clinic. He is also a member of the Howard University School of Communications Board of Visitors and a trustee of the University of South Dakota, the Norton Simon Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, and the International Rescue Committee. He also provides the voiceover for a University of Iowa advertisement that airs on television during Iowa Hawkeyes athletic events.[36]

In 2011, Brokaw began hosting The Boys in the Hall, a baseball documentary series for Fox Sports Net.[37]

In December 2012, Brokaw starred in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's annual Christmas concert, with live audiences of 84,000. The concert, titled Home for the Holidays, was nationally televised in December 2013.[38]

In April 2014, a new broadcast facility opened on the Universal Studios Hollywood lot, and named in Brokaw's honor as the Brokaw News Center.[39] The facility houses KNBC-TV, Telemundo owned-and-operated station KVEA, and the Los Angeles bureau of NBC News.

In November 2014, President Barack Obama presented Brokaw with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor. He received the honor with the citation, "The chronicler of the Greatest Generation...we celebrate him as one of our nation’s greatest journalists".[40]

On March 11, 2016, Brokaw gave one of the eulogies for former First Lady Nancy Reagan at her funeral. He spoke about his relationship with both the Reagans as a reporter and later anchor.[41]

On January 22, 2021, NBC announced Brokaw would retire after 55 years at the network, one of the few news anchors in the world who have spent the longest time on the same news network, along with Ecuadorian news anchor Alfonso Espinosa de los Monteros who was on Ecuavisa for over 56 years from 1967 to May 2023.

Personal life

Since 1962, Brokaw has been married to author Meredith Lynn Auld.[42] They have three daughters: Jennifer, Andrea, and Sarah.[43] Brokaw and his wife spend considerable time at their ranch near Livingston, Montana, which they bought in 1989.[44] [45]

On September 6, 2012, Brokaw was hospitalized after appearing on MSNBC's Morning Joe. He later tweeted that he was "all well" and explained his illness as having accidentally taken half a dose of Ambien in the morning.[46] He was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a treatable but incurable blood cancer, in August 2013 at the Mayo Clinic.[47] Brokaw and his physicians were "very encouraged with his progress".[48] He continued to work for NBC throughout his treatments. On December 21, 2014, Brokaw announced that his cancer is in remission.[49] [50] [51] [52] His 2015 book, A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope (published by Random House), was about his cancer battle.

In 2018, Brokaw was accused of having made unwanted sexual advances toward two women in the 1990s.[53] [54] Brokaw denied the allegations.[55] [56] In response to the allegations, former colleagues Rachel Maddow, Andrea Mitchell, Maria Shriver, Kelly O'Donnell, and 64 others, signed a letter characterizing Brokaw as "a man of tremendous decency and integrity".[57] [58]

Career timeline

Bibliography

Awards and honors

Public and industry awards

Honorary degrees

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Tom Brokaw – Council on Foreign Relations. February 7, 2008. February 7, 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080207121226/http://www.cfr.org/bios/6245/tom_brokaw.html. dead.
  2. Web site: Tom Brokaw Biography: News Anchor, Journalist (1940–). Biography.com (A&E Networks). June 25, 2013.
  3. News: Tom Brokaw Reflects On Cancer, 'Nightly News' And His 'Lucky Life'. NPR.org. January 21, 2016. Tom. Brokaw.
  4. Web site: John Glenn College of Public Affairs Tom Brokaw. glenn.osu.edu. January 21, 2016. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160130132143/http://glenn.osu.edu/brokaw/. January 30, 2016.
  5. Web site: President Obama Names Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. whitehouse.gov. National Archives. November 10, 2014.
  6. Web site: EUGENIA BROKAW Obituary (2011) - Orange County Register. obits.ocregister.com. April 9, 2024 .
  7. Web site: Tom Brokaw Biography (1940–) . Filmreference.com . November 27, 2011.
  8. McGuire, John M. (November 6, 2002). "From Yankton to Yankee Town". St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. E1.
  9. Web site: European Origins of the Brokaw - Genealogy.com. www.genealogy.com.
  10. Brokaw, Tom. (2003). A Long Way from Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland in the Forties and Fifties, p. 9. New York: Random House.
  11. Jordan, Larry (February 1995). "Tom Brokaw: A Heavyweight in a World of Lightweights ". Midwest Today.
  12. Web site: Our Leadership. Joe Foss Institute. July 21, 2014. July 16, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140716203409/http://www.joefossinstitute.org/about-jfi/our-leadership/. dead.
  13. News: Munson . Kyle . Tom Brokaw's 'stuff' in Iowa is a window into his life . The Des Moines Register . April 10, 2017 . March 19, 2018.
  14. Web site: Tom Brokaw – Biography. Yahoo! TV. August 20, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20110615094721/https://tv.yahoo.com/tom-brokaw/contributor/213912/bio. June 15, 2011. live.
  15. News: Roberts . Michael . Anchor's Away . Outside . December 1, 2004 . March 19, 2018.
  16. News: Lions in Winter: Tom Brokaw Goes to Patagonia . Men's Journal . December 2005 . March 19, 2018.
  17. Web site: See Inside Tom Brokaw's Westchester County Home. Sam. Dangremond. June 15, 2018. Town & Country.
  18. Book: Wishart, David J.. David J. Wishart. Encyclopedia of the Great Plains. 2004. University of Nebraska Press. 9780803247871. 507.
  19. Brokaw, Tom, "The Offer From Nixon I Refused" (opinion), Op-ed, The New York Times, February 17, 2017. Retrieved February 18, 2017.
  20. News: Williams . John . Tom Brokaw Recalls His Time Covering Watergate . March 7, 2024 . . October 30, 2019.
  21. Frank, Reuven. Out of Thin Air: The Brief Wonderful Life of Network News (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991), pp. 383–84.
  22. Web site: Zak . Dan . Thirty years ago, a TV critic watched the Challenger explosion. This is what he saw. . washingtonpost.com . WP Company, LLC . August 31, 2019.
  23. Web site: Bhattacharjee . Riya . "It Sounded Like A Bomb Went Off" — The 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake in Pictures . nbcbayarea.com . October 17, 2014 . NBC Universal Media, LLC . August 31, 2019.
  24. Web site: Wheatley . Bill . How NBC got its '89 Berlin Wall Scoop . . November 5, 2009 . NBC Universal . August 31, 2019.
  25. Web site: Acclaimed Journalist Tom Brokaw Reports his Own "Big Ideas" at UT Lecture . news.utk.edu . November 13, 2013 . August 31, 2019.
  26. News: Brokaw reports from the Berlin Wall. NBC NEWS. November 9, 1989. June 18, 2019.
  27. Web site: Now with Tom Brokaw & Katie Couric . tvguide.com . CBS Interactive Inc. . August 31, 2019.
  28. Web site: Late Show with David Letterman First Episode (8/30/93). https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211117/DLSG5xOaqOY. November 17, 2021 . live. YouTube. Valisno. Patrick Josh. January 1, 2015. August 21, 2017.
  29. News: Tuned In: This was reality TV at its most horrific. Post-gazette.com. September 12, 2001. November 4, 2008. Rob. Owen.
  30. Web site: 9/11/01 NBC World Trade Center Part 12. https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211117/n16ArLMUwAE. November 17, 2021 . live. YouTube. emscrazy001. November 21, 2007. August 21, 2017.
  31. Web site: Biological Threat Assessment. C-SPAN. August 21, 2017.
  32. [Howard Kurtz]
  33. News: CBS tops Nielsens 2nd week in row. SF Gate. March 12, 1997.
  34. Web site: Donaldson-Evans . Catherine . Jennings' Death Forces New Look at 'Big 3' . foxnews.com . March 25, 2015 . Fox News Network, LLC . August 31, 2019.
  35. Web site: Inside Cable News . Insidecable.blogsome.com . November 4, 2008.
  36. Web site: The University of Iowa, Tom Brokaw, and because each student (and young) with their research should Alt . https://web.archive.org/web/20200514144206/http://www.juniorelitetri.com/the-university-of-iowa-tom-brokaw-and-because-each-student-and-young-with-their-research-should-alt.html . dead . May 14, 2020 . Online University . March 16, 2010 .
  37. Web site: Fox Sports Net Orders 'The Boys in the Hall' Baseball Series, Hosted by Tom Brokaw . Alex. Weprin. May 25, 2011. SportsnNwser. Media Bistro . July 4, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110806091050/http://www.mediabistro.com/sportsnewser/fox-sports-net-orders-the-boys-in-the-hall-baseball-series-hosted-by-tom-brokaw_b9678 . August 6, 2011 .
  38. Web site: Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir featuring Alfie Boe and Tom Brokaw . pbs.org . Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) . September 3, 2019.
  39. Web site: NBC names L.A. facility for Brokaw. NewscastStudio. April 29, 2014.
  40. Web site: The Presidential Medal of Freedom. whitehouse.gov. National Archives. May 11, 2020.
  41. Web site: Nancy Reagan Honored at Funeral With Memories, Laughter and Tears. NBC News. March 12, 2016 .
  42. News: Jackson . Dory . Who is Tom Brokaw's wife, Meredith Auld? News anchor accused of sexual misconduct . . April 27, 2018 . April 27, 2018 .
  43. Book: Brokaw, Tom. A Long Way from Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland in the Forties and Fifties. registration . tom brokaw sarah jennifer andrea. . Acknowledgements, x. 2003. Random House Trade Paperbacks. 978-0375759352.
  44. Web site: Tom Brokaw: The Land Report Interview. The Land Report. O'Keefe. Eric. May 1, 2007. August 21, 2017.
  45. News: Big Sky Cooking . Montana Standard. Ronnow. Karin. September 17, 2006. August 7, 2011.
  46. Web site: UPDATE: Tom Brokaw Says He's Fine After Hospital Run. Deadline. September 6, 2012. September 6, 2012.
  47. Web site: Tom Brokaw Diagnosed With Cancer, Prognosis Encouraging. NBC News. February 12, 2014 .
  48. News: Byers. Dylan. NBC's Tom Brokaw diagnosed with cancer. February 12, 2014. Politico. February 11, 2014.
  49. Web site: Tom Brokaw: NBC Nightly News Anchorman's Multiple Myeloma Cancer Is In Remission. The Inquisitr News. December 21, 2014 .
  50. News: Duke. Alan. Tom Brokaw reveals cancer diagnosis; doctors are 'optimistic'. February 12, 2014. CNN. February 11, 2014.
  51. News: Winograd. David. Tom Brokaw Reveals He Has Cancer. https://web.archive.org/web/20140212045054/http://entertainment.time.com/2014/02/11/tom-brokaw-cancer-multiple-myeloma/. dead. February 12, 2014. February 12, 2014. Time. February 11, 2014.
  52. Web site: Tom Brokaw on Cancer Diagnosis: 'I Didn't Know What I Was in For'. NBC News. May 7, 2015. May 11, 2020.
  53. Web site: Two women allege Tom Brokaw acted inappropriately towards them in the 90s. The Hill. April 26, 2018. April 26, 2018.
  54. Web site: NBC News' Tom Brokaw allegedly made several unwanted sexual advances towards women including another anchor. Fox News. April 26, 2018. April 26, 2018.
  55. News: Tom Brokaw Accused of Sexual Harassment By Former NBC Anchor (EXCLUSIVE VIDEO). Setoodeh. Elizabeth Wagmeister, Ramin. April 27, 2018. Variety. April 27, 2018. en-US.
  56. Web site: Tom Brokaw Rips "Sensational" Accuser Claims: I Was "Ambushed and Then Perp Walked". The Hollywood Reporter. April 27, 2018 . May 3, 2018. I am facing a long list of grievances from a former colleague who left NBC News angry that she had failed in her pursuit of stardom. She has unleashed a torrent of unsubstantiated criticism and attacks on me..
  57. Web site: Rachel Maddow, Andrea Mitchell Back Tom Brokaw in Letter Signed by 64 Insiders. The Hollywood Reporter. April 27, 2018. April 28, 2018.
  58. Web site: Rachel Maddow, Maria Shriver Sign Letter Defending Tom Brokaw. Rolling Stone. April 28, 2018. May 11, 2020.
  59. Web site: Tom Brokaw – Nightly News with Brian Williams . https://web.archive.org/web/20040421042551/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4364148/ . live . April 21, 2004 . Msnbc.msn.com . June 27, 2008 . November 4, 2008.
  60. Web site: Tom Brokaw Award . South Dakota Broadcasting Hall of Fame . South Dakota Broadcasters Association . March 7, 2024.
  61. http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/to-be-an-american 48th Annual Peabody Awards
  62. Web site: Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement . www.achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement.
  63. Web site: Nix . Shan . June 26, 1989 . Looking Up to the Stars: Where 50 top celebs dazzle 400 students . San Francisco Chronicle.
  64. Web site: Legacy Tom Brokaw . South Dakota Hall of Fame . March 7, 2024.
  65. Web site: Paul White Award . . May 27, 2014 . February 25, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130225052416/http://rtdna.org/content/paul_white_award#.U4FBHS8-Ngc . dead .
  66. http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/a-question-of-fairness 63rd Annual Peabody Awards
  67. Web site: Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism. Arizona State University. August 21, 2017. January 29, 2009.
  68. Web site: Brokaw to Vanderbilt grads: Become the next 'greatest generation'. Jim. Patterson. Vanderbilt University.
  69. Web site: Berry . Conor . November 28, 2012 . Former NBC-TV anchor Tom Brokaw gets Ken Burns Lifetime Achievement Award at Old Sturbridge Village . December 15, 2023 . MassLive . en.
  70. http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/tom-brokaw-personal-award 73rd Annual Peabody Awards
  71. Web site: President Obama Announces the Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients . November 11, 2014 . . . November 10, 2014.
  72. News: National World War II Museum president and supporters Tom Hanks, Tom Brokaw to receive award in Paris . The New Orleans Advocate . Roberts III . Faimon A. . May 11, 2016 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20181227195349/https://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/article_64eba587-d843-5a9f-a071-a524dc8d004f.html . December 27, 2018.
  73. Web site: Mullin . Benjamin . March 31, 2016 . Poynter to honor Tom Brokaw with lifetime achievement award . December 15, 2023 . Poynter . en-US.
  74. Web site: One Hundred Sixty Fourth Annual Commencement.
  75. Web site: About: Honorary Degrees | Hofstra University .
  76. Web site: Tom Brokaw to speak at MSU Feb. 28. Montana State University. September 4, 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110805123259/http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=9421&origin=homepage. August 5, 2011.

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