George Lewis (born 1943) is an American retired television

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who worked for

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for 43 years from 1969 to 2012. His stories have appeared on ''

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''. Lewis joined NBC in December 1969 as a war correspondent covering the

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. He also covered the

Iranian hostage crisis On November 4, 1979, 52 United States diplomats and citizens were held hostage after a group of militarized Iranian college students belonging to the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line, who supported the Iranian Revolution, took over ...

from 1979 to 1981, the 1989 Tiananmen Square revolt in China, and

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in 1991. Lewis has won three

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, the

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, and the Edward R. Murrow Award throughout his career covering wars and other events abroad. Based in

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, Lewis now regularly reports on the revolution in

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. In 1993, he did a ''Nightly News'' series titled ''Almost 2001'', which marked the beginning of interactive electronic exchanges between television networks and their viewers. Those watching the reports were urged to send e-mails, some of which were read on the air. It was an early use of the word "dot-com" on a news program.Almost 2001 script
He retired from NBC News on January 25, 2012.

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George Lewis
1943 births Living people American television reporters and correspondents American war correspondents American war correspondents of the Vietnam War American male journalists Journalists from California NBC News people San Diego State University alumni People from San Bernardino, California 20th-century American journalists {{US-journalist-1940s-stub