Today, we mourn the loss of a journalism legend. #RobertMacNeil passed away at the age of 93. His contributions to the field were immeasurable, and his legacy will continue to inspire generations to come.
His impact lives on in the archive where nearly 15,000 episodes of the #PBS#NewsHour and its predecessor programs, including The Robert MacNeil Report, The MacNeil/Lehrer Report, and The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, are preserved: https://americanarchive.org/special_collections/newshour
Robert MacNeil, the creator and first anchor of PBS NewsHour, has died at age 93. A leader in public media journalism, he was on the ground in Dallas when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated and interviewed everyone from Martin Luther King Jr. to Margaret Thatcher. He may be best known for his 1973 primetime coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings. Here's a tribute to him from NewsHour.