Lester Holt is counting on some of the skills he developed during one of the earliest points of his career to keep it going into the future.

The NBC News veteran, who got his start in radio and was once known as “the fastest mic in the West” when he worked for San Francisco station KCBS. Now he’s dipping back into audio, with his first original podcast series. In “The Last Appeal,” issued as the latest podcast from NBC News’ “ Dateline ,” Holt will examine the case of Robert Roberson, a Texas man who is scheduled to be put to death on October 16 for shaking his two-year-old daughter so hard that she died from a brain injury.

“A shaken baby might seem to be a tell-tale sign, but not necessarily,” says Holt during a recent interview, noting that so-called “shaken baby syndrome” is

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