Robert MacNeil

Robert MacNeil was a Canadian-American television journalist and writer who started out at ITV in London, later worked for Reuters, and then joined NBC News as a Washington correspondent. Born in Montreal in 1931, he covered the Kennedy assassination in Dallas and the Senate Watergate hearings for PBS, work that brought him an Emmy Award. He hosted Washington Week in Review from 1971 to 1974, and in 1975 he and Jim Lehrer created The Robert MacNeil Report, which grew into the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour; he co-anchored it for twenty years and stepped back from nightly appearances in 1995. He made and wrote The Story of English in 1986, hosted America at a Crossroads in 2007, played the Player King in Hamlet (2000), and was interviewed for Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy (1992). He was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1997 and entered the Television Hall of Fame in 1999. He died in 2024.