William Thomas Pettit (April 23, 1931 – December 22, 1995) was an American journalist, who was a television news correspondent for NBC from the 1960s through 1995. During most of that period, he filed reports for ''NBC Nightly News'' (as well as the preceding ''Huntley-Brinkley Report'') and served numerous times on the panel of ''Meet the Press.'' He served as one of NBC's floor reporters at the political conventions in 1972, 1976, and 1980.
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