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Robert MacNeil, Longtime PBS ‘NewsHour’ Anchor, Dies at 93
Robert MacNeil, the PBS anchor who hosted the 'MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour' with Jim Lehrer, died Friday.
Robert MacNeil, co-anchor and co-founder of PBS NewsHour, died April 12, PBS announced. MacNeil died Friday morning of natural causes at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, his daughter, Alison MacNeil, told the New York Times. Following their coverage of the 1973 Senate Watergate Hearings, MacNeil co-founded the predecessor to the PBS “MacNeil/Lehrer Report” in 1975 with fellow anchor Jim Lehrer.
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