Tom Brokaw
06-Feb-1940
United States
Journalist
Tom Brokaw was born February 6, 1940, in Webster, South Dakota. Starting out as a college radio reporter, Brokaw worked until he became an NBC correspondent in Washington, covering Watergate in 1973. Named as an anchor for NBC Nightly News in 1982, Brokaw conducted the first interview of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987, and reported on such history. Events took place like the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. He remained at the anchor desk until his retirement in 2004. Brokaw's 1998 book, The Greatest Generation, was a bestseller.