Jan 24 How Jim Lehrer’s colleagues remember his life and legacy By Gretchen Frazee For those who worked with Jim Lehrer, his legacy is deeply personal. Continue reading
Jan 23 Watch 15:44 The extraordinary legacy and unique voice of Jim Lehrer It is impossible to quantify Jim Lehrer’s influence on this news program, American journalism, presidential debates or the lives of so many of us. He was an extraordinary journalist, writer, collaborator and friend. Robert MacNeil, Lehrer’s NewsHour co-founder, longtime Lehrer… Continue watching
Jan 23 How Jim Lehrer is being remembered Politicians, fellow journalists and friends are remembering Jim Lehrer, NewsHour co-founder and longtime executive editor and anchor, as a legendary journalist. Continue reading
Jan 23 Remembering Jim Lehrer By Anne Azzi Davenport, Jeffrey Brown PBS NewsHour co-founder Jim Lehrer, a giant in journalism known for his tenacity and dedication to simply delivering the news, died Thursday at the age of 85. Continue reading
Jul 09 Watch 10:57 Jim Lehrer remembers ‘authentic’ underdog Ross Perot In the 1992 U.S. presidential election, Texas billionaire Ross Perot earned 19 percent of the popular vote, making him the most successful third-party candidate since Teddy Roosevelt in 1912. Perot died Tuesday at age 89 from leukemia. To remember him,… Continue watching
Nov 03 WATCH: The Public Broadcasting Act turns 50. What’s changed? By Erica R. Hendry 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… Continue reading
May 24 Al Vecchione, first executive producer of ‘The MacNeil/Lehrer Report,’ dies at 86 By Joshua Barajas 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… Continue reading
Nov 21 Watch 17:33 MacNeil and Lehrer remember the shock, special sorrow of JFK’s assassination On Nov. 22, 1963, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer were young reporters both covering President John F. Kennedy's visit to Texas. The NewsHour's founders share with Judy Woodruff their indelible memories of JFK's assassination as they recount their feelings of… Continue watching
Nov 15 5 journalists who got their start covering the JFK assassination By Bridget Shirvell 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… Continue reading
Oct 15 Watch Jim Lehrer returns to haunting ‘what if’ in novel on the JFK assassination 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… Continue watching