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Tom Brokaw Biography

Tom Brokaw born Thomas John Brokaw is an American retired television journalist and author, best known for being the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News for 22 years (1982–2004).

Brokaw is the only person to have hosted all three major NBC News programs: NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, and, briefly, Meet the Press. Currently, he serves as a Special Correspondent for NBC News and works on documentaries for other outlets.

Along with competitors Dan Rather at CBS News and Peter Jennings at ABC News, Brokaw was one of the “Big Three” news anchors in the U.S. during the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s. The three hosted their networks’ flagship nightly news programs for over 20 years, and all three began and retired (or died, in Jennings’ case) within a year of each other.

Tom Brokaw Education

Brokaw attended Yankton Senior High School. He was governor of South Dakota American Legion Boys State, and in that capacity Brokaw accompanied then-South Dakota Governor Joe Foss to New York City for a joint appearance on a TV game show.

Brokaw began his long relationship with Foss, whom he 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.

He then 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”.

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Brokaw received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of South Dakota in 1964.

For several years, he mountain climbed with the “Do Boys,” whose members included Douglas Tompkins and Yvon Chouinard.

Tom Brokaw Age

Brokaw was born on February 6, 1940 in Webster, South Dakota, United States. He is 84 years old as of 2024.

Tom Brokaw Height

Brokaw stands at a height 6 feet tall.

Tom Brokaw Family

Brokaw is the son of Eugenia “Jean” (née Conley; 1917–2011), who worked in sales and as a post-office clerk, and Anthony Orville “Red” Brokaw (1912–1982). His father was the eldest of their three sons (Dan and Richard) and named for his maternal great-grandfather, Thomas Conley.

He was a descendant of Huguenot immigrants Bourgon and Catherine (née Le Fèvre) Broucard, and his mother was Irish-American, although the origin of the name Brokaw is contested.

Brokaw’s 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.

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. Brokaw father’s job often required the family to resettle throughout South Dakota during Brokaw’s early childhood.

They 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.

Tom Brokaw Wife

Brokaw has been married to author Meredith Lynn Auld since 1962. The couple spend considerable time at their ranch near Livingston, Montana, which they bought in 1989. They have three daughters: Andrea, Jennifer, and Sarah.

Tom Brokaw Salary

Being a lead anchors at NBC, Brokaw earns an annual salary of $5 million.

Tom Brokaw Net Worth

Brokaw has an estimated net worth of $80 million which he has earned from his career as a television journalist and author.

Tom Brokaw Health

On September 6, 2012, Tom Brokaw was hospitalized after appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. Brokaw later tweeted that he was “all well” and explained his illness as having accidentally taken half a dose of Ambien in the morning. In August 2013, he was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in at the Mayo Clinic.

Brokaw and his physicians are “very encouraged with his progress”. He has continued to work for NBC throughout his treatments. On December 21, 2014, Brokaw announced that his cancer is in full remission. In 2018, he was accused of unwanted sexual advances toward three women, one in 1968, two in the 1990s. Brokaw denied the allegations.

Tom Brokaw The Greatest Generation

The Greatest Generation is a 1998 book by Tom Brokaw that profiles those who grew up in the United States during the deprivation of the Great Depression, and then went on to fight in World War II, as well as those whose productivity within the home front during World War II made a decisive material contribution to the war effort. It popularized the term Greatest Generation for the name of the cultural generation before the Silent Generation.

Originally published: 1998
Country: United States
Publisher: Penguin Random House LLC.
Original language: English
Genres: Biography, Personal narrative

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Brokaw has also written several books on American history and society in the 20th century. He is the author of The Greatest Generation (1998) and other books and the recipient of numerous awards and honors.

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