Diplomacy conference, United Nations, New York, NY. He spoke about the American experience. In September 2014 Dotson addressed the United Nations assembly, "People for Peace" in Seoul, South Korea. In September 2012 Dotson was the David Letterman guest lecturer at Ball State University. In March 2013 Penguin/Random House published Dotson's third book, American Story, a Lifetime Search for Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things. (25) The book became a New York Times Best Seller. In July 2010 Dotson was a visiting lecturer at the Walkley Foundation and Network Seven Television in Sydney, Australia. In December 2009 Dotson wrote and hosted an hour-long American Story Christmas special for MSNBC. It won a CINE Golden Eagle award for Best American Documentary. In May 2000 Dotson moved to New York City and began reporting his "American Story" exclusively for the NBC Today Show. Bonus Books published his second book, Make it Memorable, Writing and Packaging TV News with Style. In 1997 Dotson wrote, edited and hosted a series of half-hour programs about America on the Travel Channel. In 1985 Atheneum published Dotson's first book, In Pursuit of the American Dream. In September, 1979, Dotson began a series of video workshops for students attending Radio and Television News Directors Association conventions. Those workshops continued for 35 years. In August, 1979, Dotson became an NBC News National Correspondent based in Atlanta working on American Story segments for the TODAY Show, Nightly News and several NBC News magazine programs. In 1977 Dotson opened the first NBC News bureau in Dallas, Texas. In 1975 Dotson joined NBC News as a Network Correspondent in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1971 Dotson became Director of Special Projects at WKY-TV, now KFOR-TV, in Oklahoma City. He produced, wrote, edited and narrated 19 documentaries over the next four years. In 1970 Dotson joined the faculty of the National Press Photographers Annual Workshop in Norman, Oklahoma. He is still on the faculty. In 1969 Dotson joined WKY-TV, now (KFOR-TV) the NBC affiliate station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, as a reporter, photographer and Anchorman. In 1967 Dotson applied for a news job at KMOX radio. The station sent him to work behind the a microphone at the St. Louis Zoo, announcing elephant and chimpanzee acts. American Story, a Lifetime Search for Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things (Penguin Random House, 2013), page 116 In 1966 Dotson became News Director of KFKU-KANU-FM in Lawrence, Kansas, and was a