On Tuesday, August 5, the day after I was hired by NBC News, I was given a desk in the newsroom of WWJ‑TV, an NBC affiliate in downtown Detroit. For my first assignment, Bob Toombs gave me a long list of questions he needed answered and people he wanted contacted.
At 10:45 A.M., with my work nearly completed, I received a call from a very nervous man wh…
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