10/5/2001

“On October 5 [2001], the photo editor of a Florida tabloid newspaper died after apparently inhaling anthrax spores in a letter, and worries spread the following week when an employee at NBC News in New York tested positive for the disease after handling two threatening letters addressed to the network’s anchor, Tom Brokaw.”

 – Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, Page 167