

Arts Nov 03

The Library of Congress and Boston public broadcaster WGBH are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the public broadcasting act with a series of panels, including one on news that features PBS NewsHour's Judy Woodruff, former anchor and executive editor Jim…
By Erica R. Hendry
Nation May 24

For seven years, Vecchione helmed the “Report,” and then , in 1983, he helped oversee the show’s transition as it doubled its length from a half hour to a full 60 minutes. Renamed "The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour," the extra time allowed…
By Joshua Barajas
Nation Nov 21

MacNeil and Lehrer remember the special sorrow of JFK's assassination…
Nation Nov 15

On Nov. 22, 1963, America was changed forever. For the first time, a wide television audience witnessed the unfolding of a national tragedy. Fifty years later, we still remember the events of that fateful day, and the men who…
By Bridget Shirvell
What if the glass bubble top on the car in which President John F. Kennedy was riding in Dallas had not been removed by a Secret Service agent? The NewsHour's own Jim Lehrer explores that idea in "Top Down: A…
Take a look into PBS NewsHour's history. In this video, Jim Lehrer, Robert MacNeil and Charlayne Hunter Gault reflect on their work for The MacNeil/Lehrer Report during the 1980s.
MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour: A 1987 Interview With Gary Hart…
May 16

By PBS NewsHour
On May 17, 1973, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer launched public broadcasting's gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings. Forty years later, the two recount their memories after some of the more gripping moments and how their partnership changed not…
In the summer of 1973, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer led PBS’s gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings — launching the beginnings of what the PBS NewsHour is today. On May 17, the NewsHour will look back at the…
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