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Brian Williams: How I Found Out About Osama Bin Laden's Death

The "NBC Nightly News" anchor tells David Letterman about getting a Sunday night call from a senior White House official -- and speeding to NBC's offices at 30 Rockefeller Plaza.

NBC's Brian Williams was the first evening news anchor from a broadcast network to jump into the anchor's chair on Sunday night to cover the news that Osama bin Laden had been killed by U.S. forces.