A compilation of Brian Williams’s television appearances shows how his accounts of a 2003 episode on military helicopters in Iraq gradually became more perilous.
NBC News is starting an internal investigation into the actions of Brian Williams, the embattled “Nightly News” anchor who has acknowledged misleading the public with his accounts of a harrowing helicopter episode in 2003.
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Inside NBC, executives canceled meetings and said that the issue was absorbing all of their focus.
Tom Brokaw, who had held the anchor chair before Mr. Williams, said in an email that he “neither suggested nor demanded Brian be fired. His future is up to Brian and the executives of NBC News.”
