Tom Brokaw

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http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/tom-brokaw-sexual-harassment-nbc-news-correspondent-1202789627/

Tom Brokaw was accused of sexual harassment yesterday by Linda Vester, a war correspondent for NBC News in the 90s. One of the two episodes of sexual harassment that she describes is being tickled by Brokaw in a board meeting in Denver in 1995 when she was 28.

Here is her quote on this specific event, taken from the full transcript:
"We were in the Denver bureau, and there was a conference room. I’m standing there, and Tom Brokaw enters through the door and grabs me from behind and proceeds to tickle me up and down my waist. I jumped a foot and I looked at a guy who was the senior editor of “Nightly,” and his jaw was hanging open. Nobody acted like anything wrong was happening, but I was humiliated. I didn’t know Brokaw other than to say hello in the hall. He was the most powerful man at the network, and I was the most junior person, reporting for an entirely different show. It was really out of the blue."

 

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From Brokaw's written response:

It is 4:00 am on the first day of my new life as an accused predator in the universe of American journalism. . . . Linda Vester was given the run of the Washington Post and Variety to vent her grievances, to complain that I tickled her without permission (you read that right), that I invaded her hotel room, accepted an invitation to her apartment under false pretenses and in general was given a free hand to try to destroy all that I have achieved with my family, my NBC career, my writing and my citizenship.