Tom Brokaw was born in 1940 in Webster, South Dakota. He is an NBC News special correspondent and the author of The Greatest Generation (1998), A Long Way Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland (2002), and Boom! Voices of the Sixties (2006).

On the 50th anniversary of the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird legendary anchor and author Tom Brokaw shares what he finds so special about the book.