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Friday, December 14, 2012. It was a clear, crisp, and trouble-free start that morning at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Classrooms filled with kids excited for Christmas, just 11 days away. The school day started, as they always had, with a comforting routine. 9 A M, children settling into their classrooms. 9:10 A M, the pledge of allegiance. 9:15 A M, outside doors…locked. Then came 9:30 A M, when the day and the children’s innocence was shattered. On this 10th remembrance, Brian Williams shares the story as you’ve never heard it before. Told by the by the journalists who covered it, and the parents who suffered through it.

Contributors:
Chris Jansing, anchor for MSNBC
Chris Hansen, former correspondent for Dateline NBC
Connecticut U S Senator Chris Murphy
Ali Velshi, MSNBC anchor, former correspondent for CNN
Nicole Hockley, parent of first grader, Dylan Hockley. Co-founder of Sandy Hook Promise Foundation
Mark Barden, parent of first grader, Daniel Barden. Co-founder of Sandy Hook Promise Foundation
Michael St. Peter, former news director at WVIT TV, NBC Connecticut affiliate
Liz Dahlem, former filed reporter for WVIT TV, NBC Connecticut affiliate
John Senecal, news cameraman for WVIT TV, NBC Connecticut affiliate
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On April 19, 1995, two years to the day following the U.S. government’s botched raid on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, a rented truck pulled to the curb in front of the nine story Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. Inside the building, about 500 federal employees, and several hundred visitors were beginning their workday. Then, at 9:04 a.m., came the explosion which would alter the American social and political landscape.

Contributors:
Jerry Bohnen, former KTOK News director
David Bohrman, former executive producer of special events for NBC News
Beth O’Connell, former Senior Producer, Today Show
Stewart Dan, former Chicago-based producer, Today Show
Tony Clark, former Dallas Bureau Chief and CNN Correspondent
Trace Ready, former CNN cameraman
Chris Hansen, Investigative news reporter
Stephanie Becker, former Los Angeles-based producer, NBC

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He was an extraordinarily gifted athlete, the premier football player of his time, a California golden child who emerged from abject poverty to win the Heisman trophy in college and set records as a pro football running back. Effortless grace and a ready smile eased his transition from ex-athlete to corporate-backed celebrity. All of that changed on the night of June 13, 1992, when his ex-wife Nicole Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman, were found brutally murdered. Evidence gleaned from the murder site suggested that her executioner may well have been O.J. Simpson. But when police decided to arrest Simpson two days later, an even more surreal tableaux unfolded - live on national television in front of 95-million viewers.

Contributors:
Hannah Zoey Tur, an independent helicopter reporter in Los Angeles.
Carl Stein, video journalist for KCBS, Channel 2 in Los Angeles
Diane Dimond, the investigative crime reporter for the television show Hard Copy
Steve Futterman, Los Angeles-based reporter for CBS News Radio.

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The Space Shuttle Challenger flew nine missions into space. But its fateful tenth mission, which lasted only 73 seconds, ensured its tragic place in history. On the morning of January 28, 1986, a crew of seven boarded the Challenger, including a New Hampshire grade school teacher named Christa McAuliffe, representing the aspirations of so-called ‘ordinary’ citizens to journey into space. It was an adventure vicariously shared by millions of Americans through television, as the Challenger lifted off at 11:38a.m. from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and hurtled majestically into the sky. But less than two minutes later, horror struck in full view of all who watched.

Contributors:
John Zarrella, former CNN Miami Bureau Chief
Tony Clark, former national correspondent for CNN
Beth O’Connell, former coordinator for the NBC Boston Bureau
William Harwood, CBS News space analyst
Steve Nesbitt, the voice of NASA Mission Control
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Pandemonium reigned in downtown Dallas on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. An assassin's bullet had murdered President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Within an hour, police had arrested their lead suspect Lee Harvey Oswald, a former Marine and accomplished sharpshooter. On Sunday morning, November 24, with TV cameras in place, and NBC airing it live, Oswald was led through the department's basement for transport to the county jail. And, for the first time, the nation watched an historic national news event - as it happened.
Written by Joe Garner and Brian Williams
Contributors:
Gary DeLaune, formally a reporter for KLIF Radio Dallas
Bill Lord, formerly a producer for ABC News
Ike Pappas, formerly a reporter for WNEW Radio New York
Bob Huffaker, formerly a reporter for KRLD Radio and television and the CBS affiliate in Dallas
Fred Rheinstein, formerly the field director for NBC News
Chad Hagan, formerly a producer for NBC News
Homer Vinso, formerly a cameraman for NBC News
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