Contrite NBC anchor recants Iraq incident story
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NBC 鈥淣ightly News鈥 anchor Brian Williams apologized yesterday for incorrectly claiming as recently as last week that he rode on a helicopter that came under enemy fire when he was reporting in Iraq in 2003.
Instead, Williams said, he was in another helicopter trailing a Chinook that actually was hit. He apologized on 鈥淣ightly News鈥 for getting it wrong.
The embarrassing admission came after a story in the Stars & Stripes newspaper pointing out the discrepancy. Williams had made the claim on the air last Friday during a story about Tim Terpak, an Army officer who he had befriended when Terpak was assigned to protect the NBC crew.
Williams reported on 鈥淣ightly News鈥 that he had gone with Terpak to a New York Rangers ice hockey game. They were introduced to the audience by the public address announcer, who also repeated the claim that Williams鈥 helicopter had been hit.
鈥淭his was a bungled attempt by me to thank one special veteran and by extension our brave military men and women, veterans everywhere, those who have served while I did not,鈥 Williams said on air. 鈥淚 hope they know they have my greatest respect and also now my apology.鈥
Stars & Stripes quoted Lance Reynolds, the flight engineer on the crew that rode with Williams, as saying that 鈥渋t felt like a personal experience that someone else wanted to participate in and didn鈥檛 deserve to participate in.鈥
The newspaper said Williams鈥 helicopter traveled about an hour behind the aircraft that actually took fire.
In a Facebook response to service members who had pointed out the mistake, Williams said that 鈥淚 spent much of the weekend thinking I鈥檇 gone crazy.鈥
Williams has anchored NBC鈥檚 鈥淣ightly News鈥 since 2004.
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