Former NBC Correspondent George Lewis

Still Crazy After All These Years

George Lewis was a correspondent at NBC News from 1970 until his retirement in 2012. Before moderating a panel on the future of U.S.-Iran relations, he talked about the scoop that got away (if only he’d hung out in Vietnam just a little longer) as well as the country he reported from but is least likely to return to (Guyana) in the Zócalo green room.

December 4, 2013

Iran: Love Me, Love Me Not?

Tehran Has Shunned Washington for Over 30 Years. Is the Ice Melting?

by Sarah Rothbard | November 6, 2013

In 1979, George Lewis was an NBC correspondent in Iran covering the hostage crisis. Thirty-four years later and thousands of miles away, at a Zócalo event co-presented by Occidental College …

Who Knew My Canadian Friend Was Hiding Hostages?

Ben Affleck’s Gripping Argo Takes Me Back to Iran in 1979

by George Lewis | October 16, 2012

On November 4, 1979, Iranian Islamic radicals overran the grounds of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and captured the diplomatic personnel inside, kicking off a crisis that would last 444 …

To All the Wars I’ve Loved Before

Thoughts on a Career of Running Toward the Guns

by George Lewis | April 2, 2012

The author and fellow journalists prepare to flee Saigon as the city falls

When I first stepped onto the tarmac in Saigon in August of 1970, I was a 27-year-old correspondent …

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