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Robert MacNeil Dies: Longtime PBS ‘MacNeil/Lehrer Report’ Co-Anchor Was 93


Robert MacNeil, the veteran PBS newsman who co-hosted the long-running MacNeil/Lehrer Report with Jim Lehrer, has died. He was 93. MacNeil died of natural causes at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. His death was announced by PBS NewsHour broadcaster Judy Woodruff, and confirmed to the Associated Press by his daughter Alison MacNeil. “I […]

Robert MacNeil, the veteran PBS newsman who co-hosted the long-running MacNeil/Lehrer Report with Jim Lehrer, has died. His death was announced by PBS NewsHour broadcaster Judy Woodruff, and confirmed to the Associated Press by his daughter Alison MacNeil. Two years after teaming in 1973 on Emmy-winning coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings, MacNeil and Lehrer solidified their partnership in 1975 with the 30-minute PBS news program that would soon bear their names.

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