Luke Russert's Dateline Debut

Poor Luke Russert. When we heard the news that his first report for Dateline on NBC would be airing this past Sunday, we got excited for him. It’s not everyday that a Capitol Hill correspondent has a crossover hit and goes big-time with a Dateline feature. It was an examination of the case of Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez, a man convicted of murder and set to spend his life in jail. After Velazquez sent repeated letters to Dateline proclaiming his innocence, Russert took on the case of “JJ”.

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