In His Own Words - Brian Williams on Katrina. Oct. 27, 2005. (Part 1)

Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz1Aw971Ke0

Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asYWzCHNQKs

Part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2JUAbJocQI

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The New York Times
Oct. 27, 2005.
"In His Own Words: Brian Williams on Hurricane Katrina" on the Sundance Channel serves as a study aid for those who wish to re-examine the government's neglect of the poorest victims of that terrible storm.

On "In His Own Words," Mr. Williams reminisces while perched on a backstage stool in his shirt sleeves, his tie loosened, looking a little like Joey Bishop in the days of cabaret. This normally suave anchorman talks a lot about his own feelings. "I can't get the faces out of my mind," he says, referring to victims he bonded with during their long wait for rescue. "But I shouldn't. They are part of who I am."

It's easy to sneer at the self-referential tone and show-biz touches, but the truth is, the hurricane did deeply affect the reporters who covered it. And Mr. Williams, whose previous experience in the field was broad but thin, burrowed deeper into that story than anchors usually do, under conditions most anchors manage to skirt. He impressed viewers both by providing calm, authoritative on-the-scene reports, and also by occasionally venting his own fury at the authorities' missteps.

"I carried a case of Vienna sausage, cans of Vienna sausage, as collateral in case we had a smash-and-grab car jack, I was going to offer it to someone in exchange for my life," he says on the Sundance documentary, describing the lawlessness that ruled in the French Quarter after the storm. "The government couldn't tell us that things were O.K. We were there standing next to the things that were not O.K."

Source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/27/arts/television/27stan.html

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[wwwy2000]

thanks for the post!

[jakoxn]

Enjoy! :)

[sakar181]

This reminds me of Ike. When I read the bulletin from the NWS saying that in certain areas of the TX coast, if you stayed, you faced certain death, my jaw dropped. Then, hearing officials telling those same people to write their name & social security number on their arms for post-mortem ID, I was staggered.

I went to Galveston about a year after Ike. You could still see the waterline on buildings...3-5 feet above your head.

[DejaBleu22]

thanks for posting! that being said, that superdome seemed like it was more of a concentration camp than shelter.

[jacobhamselv]

A prime example of integrity