Brokaw pulls out of university commencement speech amid misconduct allegations
By Max Greenwood - 04/27/18 03:35 PM EDT
Veteran NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw has withdrawn as the commencement speaker at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut, a day after allegations emerged that he sexually harassed two women in the 1990s.
John Petillo, the university's president, said in a letter to students, faculty and staff on Friday that he had been informed of Brokaw's decision to pull out of the engagement and that Linda McMahon, the head of the Small Business Administration, would take his place.
"This morning Tom Brokaw informed us of his decision to withdraw as our undergraduate commencement speaker," Petillo wrote in the letter, a copy of which was obtained by News 8 in New Haven, Conn.
"Given events in the news, Mr. Brokaw did not want to distract from the intended and most important focus of the day — our graduating students and their families."
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