Daschle Dialogues tickets online Tuesday

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BROOKINGS – Tickets will be available at 8 a.m. Tuesday for the upcoming Daschle Dialogues lecture at the 1,000-seat Larson Memorial Concert Hall in the Performing Arts Center at South Dakota State University.

While the Oct. 19 event is free and open to the public, a ticket is required for admission. Tickets are only available online at www.sdstate.edu/daschletickets and individuals can order up to two tickets.

The 7 p.m. lecture features former U.S. Senate leader Tom Daschle ’69 and Tom Brokaw, a South Dakota native who is best known as the anchor and managing editor of “NBC Nightly News” from 1982-2004.

Brokaw hosted all three major NBC News programs – “NBC Nightly News,” “TODAY,” and for a brief time, “Meet the Press.” He still serves as a special correspondent for NBC News.

Brokaw was born in Webster and graduated from Yankton High School. He attended the University of Iowa before earning a degree from the University of South Dakota in 1964. Brokaw’s television career began at KTIV in Sioux City, Iowa.

Brokaw’s career highlights include being the only American network anchor to report from the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and he conducted the first interview with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Brokaw anchored NBC News’ coverage of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center.

This year will mark the third Daschle Dialogues. Sen. Trent Lott joined Daschle in 2014, while former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was a guest in 2015.

The Daschle Dialogues is held in support of the Senator Thomas A. Daschle Congressional Research Study, which consists of more than 2,000 linear feet of materials from his distinguished 26-year public career. The study is located in the Archives and Special Collections of the Hilton M. Briggs Library on the South Dakota State University campus.

For more information about tickets, email Brittany Peterson at Brittany.peterson@sdstatefoundation.org.