Similarly, Rene Levesque, a war correspondent several decadss before entering politics, wrote in his memoir about being an eyewitness to Mussolini's corpse being hung upside down in Milan - except he actually arrived after the fact. 

Probably the most famous example of misremembering came in early 2015, when NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams talked about flying in a military helicopter in Iraq when it was shot down by a missile. But when soldiers who had been there disputed the story - saying Williams had actually been in a different plane - the NBC vet was forced to apologize for his faulty memory. 

It ended up costing him his job. He went from NBC anchor to MSNBC's breaking news specialist and then out of TV news altogether. And all because one misremembered incident destroyed his credibility.