NBC ‘Today’ show to broadcast
live from Crazy Horse Memorial

Mountain carving work on Crazy Horse Memorial will be shown to a live nationwide audience on Monday, May 19.

NBC’s “Today,” the country’s top-rated morning news show for 12 years running, will broadcast several live segments between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. local time. (Please consult your local TV listings for your area's NBC affiliate and channel number.)

Award-winning “Today” news anchor Ann Curry will be at Crazy Horse for the first of a four-part series on dangerous jobs, each day featuring a different “Today” anchor person.

While subject to change, at least four cut-ins to Crazy Horse are expected during the Monday morning broadcast, which starts at 7 a.m. MST.

Crazy Horse Memorial is the world’s largest mountain carving in progress. The Memorial’s mission is to honor the culture, tradition and living heritage of North American Indians. It is a nonprofit, educational and cultural project celebrating its 60^th anniversary in 2008. Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski and Lakota Chief Henry Standing Bear dedicated the Memorial on June 3, 1948.

A “Today” show anchor since 1997, Curry has distinguished herself in global humanitarian reporting. From March 2006 to March 2007, she traveled three times to Sudan to report on the violence and ethnic cleansing taking place in Darfur and Chad. She was the first network news anchor to report from inside the tsunami zone in Southeast Asia and also the first network news anchor to report on the humanitarian refugee crisis caused by the genocide in Kosovo, reporting from Albania and Macedonia.

In the first two weeks following the attacks of September 11, Curry reported live from ground zero every day. When the United States bombed Al Qaeda targets in Afghanistan in November 2001, she reported extensively from the USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Arabian Sea, and landed the first exclusive interview with the war’s military commander, General Tommy Franks. Curry reported from Baghdad in the weeks leading up to the war in Iraq, and then from the USS Constellation as the war began, interviewing fighter pilots who flew the first wave of bombing runs over Iraq. She also filed reports from inside Iraq, from Qatar, and Kuwait during the first weeks of the war.

Curry has earned two Emmys, four Golden Mikes, several Associated Press Certificates of Excellence, two Gracies, and an award for Excellence in Reporting from the NAACP. She has been honored by Americares, the Anti-Defamation League as a Woman of Achievement, and the Asian American Journalists Association, receiving its National Journalism Award in 2003. She has also won numerous awards for her charity work, primarily for breast cancer research.