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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robert MacNeil, right, and Jim Lehrer were first teamed to cover the Watergate hearings for PBS in 1973. Robert MacNeil, whose ...

This week marks 50 years since the first public hearings of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, also known as the Senate Watergate hearings. It also marked the start of a ...

Robert MacNeil, the veteran PBS newsman who co-founded and co-hosted the long-running PBS NewsHour and MacNeil/Lehrer Report with Jim Lehrer, died today of natural causes at New York-Presbyterian ...

On the morning of May 17, 1973, what began as a third-rate burglary at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the ...

Robert MacNeil, the longtime PBS anchor who started "PBS NewsHour," has died at the age of 93. His daughter Alison MacNeil confirmed that her father, who was also known as Robin, died Friday at a ...

Robert MacNeil, whose coverage of the Watergate scandal led to the first nightly newscast for PBS, died Friday in Manhattan after a long illness. He was 93. A PBS representative confirmed MacNeil's ...