For Release: 2007-12-03 14:58:00
Kentucky Author Forum Presents opens its 11th season with former NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw, interviewed by fellow journalist Rick Atkinson. The program airs Thursday, Dec. 20 at 10/9 p.m. CT on KET1 and Sunday, Dec. 23 at 10/9 p.m. CT on KET2.
Brokaw stepped down after 21 years as anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News in 2004, but he has continued reporting and producing documentaries for NBC News, as well as providing expertise during breaking news events.
Brokaw has received numerous honors during his career, including the Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award and the Emmy Award for Lifetime Achievement. And he was recently inducted into the
In his new book, Boom! Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the ’60s and Today, Brokaw provides a portrait of a defining era in American history. Boom! explores race, war, politics, feminism, popular culture and music with frank personal accounts of this generation.
On the program, Brokaw is interviewed by Rick Atkinson, a staff writer and senior editor at The Washington Post for more than 20 years. He is the author of An Army at Dawn, which won a Pulitzer in 2002; The Long Gray Line; In the Company of Soldiers; and Crusade. His most recent book is The Day of
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