Robert MacNeil, Longtime PBS News Anchor, Dies at 93
News anchor Robert MacNeil, who cohosted "The MacNeil/Lehrer Report" on PBS from 1975 to 1995, has died at 93.
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News anchor Robert MacNeil, who cohosted "The MacNeil/Lehrer Report" on PBS from 1975 to 1995, has died at 93.
Robert MacNeil, the PBS anchor who hosted the 'MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour' with Jim Lehrer, died Friday.
MacNeil is the founding anchor of "PBS NewsHour," which he launched as "The Robert MacNeil Report." He also covered the JFK assassination for NBC.
Robert “Robin” MacNeil, co-anchor and co-founder of PBS NewsHour, died April 12, PBS announced. He was 93 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” …
A Canadian-born journalist who delivered sober evening newscasts for more than two decades on PBS, Robert MacNeil was the co-anchor of “The MacNeil/Lehrer Report,” later expanded as “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour."