Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil, sometimes called by his nickname Robin, (born January 19, 1931) is a television news anchor and journalist who paired with Jim Lehrer to create The MacNeil/Lehrer Report in 1975. January 19 is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... A news anchor (US,Can. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Jim Lehrer James Charles Lehrer (born May 19, 1934) is the news anchor for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS. // Lehrer was born in Wichita, Kansas and attended middle school in Beaumont, Texas. ... The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer is an evening television news program broadcast weeknights on PBS in the United States. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ...

Born in Montreal and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, MacNeil graduated from Carleton University in Ottawa in 1955. MacNeil began working in the news field at ITV in London, then for Reuters and then for NBC as a correspondent in Washington, D.C. and New York City. Beginning in 1967, MacNeil also covered American and European politics for the BBC and has served as the host for the news discussion show Washington Week in Review. This article needs cleanup. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = E Mari Merces (Wealth from the Sea) Logo: City Symbol: Kingfisher Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canadas Location. ... This article is about the university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Advance Ottawa/Ottawa en avant City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Ville dOttawa, Ontario, Canadas Location. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Current ITV logo. ... London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ... Reuters Group plc LSE: RTR NASDAQ: RTRSY is best known as a news service that provides reports from around the world to newspapers and broadcasters. ... The National Broadcasting Company or NBC is an American television broadcasting company based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... Nickname: the District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Official website: http://www. ... The Empire State Building (right) and the Chrysler Building (left) are easily recognized symbols of New York City to the world. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national public service broadcaster of the United Kingdom (see British television). ... Washington Week in Review (also known as Washington Week) is a public affairs program on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). ...

On November 22, 1963, MacNeil was covering Kennedy's visit to Dallas. After shots rang out in Dealey Plaza, MacNeil followed crowds running onto the Grassy Knoll (he appears in a photo taken just moments after the assassination). He then headed towards the nearest building and encountered a man leaving the Texas School Book Depository. He asked the man where the nearest telephone was and the man pointed and went on his way. MacNeil later learned the man he encountered at about 12:33 p.m. was Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald, recounting the day's events to the Dallas police, described MacNeil as a Secret Service agent because of his suit, blond crew cut, and press badge (which Oswald apparently mistook for government identification). This conclusion was made by historian William Manchester in his book Death of a President (1967). For his part, MacNeil says "it was possible, but I had no way of confirming that either of the young men I had spoken to was Oswald." (The Right Place at the Right Time, p. 213) November 22 is the 326th day (327th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Dealey Plaza (Warren Commission exhibit #876) Dealey Plaza, (pronounced dee-lee) in the historic West End district of Downtown Dallas, Texas, United States, is famous as the location of the John F. Kennedy assassination on November 22, 1963. ... Dealey Plaza (Warren Commission exhibit #876) Dealey Plaza, (pronounced deal-ee) in Dallas, Texas, United States, is famous as the location of the John F. Kennedy assassination on November 22, 1963. ... Texas School Book Depository The Texas School Book Depository is the former name of a seven-floor building located on Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. ... The neutrality of this article is disputed. ... Because of both the secrecy of secret services and the controversial nature of the issues involved there is some difficulty in separating the definitions of secret service, secret police, intelligence agency etc. ... William Manchester William Manchester (April 1, 1922–June 1, 2004) was a historian and biographer, notable as the author of 18 books that have been translated into 20 languages. ... The Death of a President: November 20-November 25 1963 was historian William Manchesters account of the John F. Kennedy assassination. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

MacNeil rose to fame during his coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings for PBS, which led to an Emmy Award. This helped lead to his most famous news role, where he worked with Jim Lehrer to create The Robert MacNeil Report with Jim Lehrer in 1975. This was later renamed The MacNeil/Lehrer Report and then The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. MacNeil left the show in 1995. The Watergate building. ... PBS re-directs here; for alternate uses see PBS (disambiguation) PBS logo The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a non-profit public broadcasting television service with 349 member TV stations in the United States. ... An Emmy Award. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

On September 11, 2001, after the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, he called PBS, asking if he could help them with their coverage of the attacks, as he recalled in his autobiography, Looking for My Country: Finding Myself in America. He helped PBS in its coverage of the attacks and the aftermath, interviewing reporters, and giving his thoughts on the attacks. September 11 is the 254th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (255th in leap years). ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... The September 11, 2001 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of coordinated suicide attacks upon the United States of America carried out on Tuesday, September 11, 2001, in which nineteen Arab hijackers took control of four U.S. domestic commercial airliners. ...

MacNeil has also written several books, many about his career as a journalist, but, since his retirement from NewsHour, MacNeil has also dabbled in writing novels. His books include:

• Breaking News
• Burden of Desire
• Eudora Welty: Seeing Black and White
• Looking for My Country: Finding Myself in America
• The People Machine: The Influence of Television on American Politics
• The Right Place at the Right Time
• The Voyage
• The Way We Were: 1963, The Year Kennedy Was Shot
• Wordstruck: A Memoir
• Do You Speak American?

MacNeil is currently the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the MacDowell Colony. In 1979 MacNeil received a L.H.D. from Bates College. The MacDowell Colony is an art colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, created in 1907 by composer Edward MacDowell and his spouse Marion, largely with donated funds. ... Bates College is a private liberal arts college in Lewiston, Maine, in the United States. ...

External links

• A Tribute to Robert MacNeil (NewsHour with Jim Lehrer)
• 1989 audio interview with Robert MacNeil by Don Swaim of CBS Radio