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Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil (January 19, 1931 – April 12, 2024), often known as Robin MacNeil, was a Canadian-American journalist, writer and television news anchor. He partnered with Jim Lehrer to create the landmark public television news program The Robert MacNeil Report in 1975. He co-anchored the program until 1995. The show eventually became the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour and is today the PBS NewsHour. Early life and education MacNeil was born in Montreal on January 19, 1931, the son of Margaret Virginia (née Oxner) and Robert A. S. MacNeil, a Royal Canadian Navy officer in World War II and later a Canadian foreign service officer. He grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia, went to boarding school at Rothesay Collegiate School and Upper Canada College, then attended Dalhousie University and later graduated from Carleton University in Ottawa in 1955. Career MacNeil began working in the news field at ITV in London, then for Reuters, and then for NBC News as a correspondent in Washington, D.C. He also worked as a news anchor, for WNBC, in New York City. On November 22, 1963, MacNeil covered President John F. Kennedy's visit to Dallas for NBC News. After shots rang out in Dealey Plaza, MacNeil, who was with the presidential motorcade, followed crowds running onto the grassy knoll; he appears in a photo taken just moments after the assassination. As he was reporting for NBC, MacNeil was at times in relatively close proximity to his future co-anchor and partner Jim Lehrer, also covering the Kennedy visit and assassination for the Dallas Times Herald, but the two did not meet until several years later, covering the Senate Watergate hearings in Washington, D.C. for PBS. News anchor In 1967, MacNeil began covering American and European politics for the BBC. From 1971 to 1974, he hosted Washington Week in Review, a public affairs television program on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). MacNeil rose to fame during his coverage of the 1973 Senate Watergate hearings for PBS, for which he received an Emmy Award. Teamed with Jim Lehrer, the two broadcast and analysed some 250 hours of the hearings in all, sometimes late into the night. This coverage helped lead to and inspire his most famous role, when he joined Lehrer in 1975 to create the PBS daily evening news program The Robert MacNeil Report, later renamed The MacNeil/Lehrer Report and then The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. After serving 20 years on the program, MacNeil retired from his nightly appearances on October 20, 1995; Lehrer anchored the program solo until 2009. The program continues as the PBS NewsHour. He remained involved with the news program until 2013 as one of the heads of MacNeil-Lehrer Productions. Other work In director Michael Almereyda's 2000 modern-day adaptation of Hamlet, MacNeil portrayed the Player King, reimagined as a TV news reporter. After the September 11 attacks, MacNeil called PBS and offered to help. He joined PBS's coverage of the attacks and their aftermath, interviewing reporters and giving his thoughts on the events. In 2007, MacNeil hosted the PBS television miniseries America at a Crossroads, which presented independently produced documentaries about the "War on Terrorism". The series initially ran from April 15–20, with further episodes later that year. In a Sesame Street Special Report, muppet parody of the Iran-Contra scandal, MacNeil investigated a "Cookiegate" incident involving the Cookie Monster. In 1998, for Season 29's "Slimey to the Moon" story arc, MacNeil took the role of co-anchor with Kermit the Frog, as Slimey, Oscar the Grouch's pet worm, and four other worms made a landing on the Moon. MacNeil chaired the MacDowell Colony's board of directors from 1993 to 2010. He was succeeded by Michael Chabon. Inspired by his passion for language, he made the nine-part television series The Story of English in 1986 for PBS and the BBC, detailing the development of the English language. The Story of English is also a companion book, also produced in 1986. The book and the television series were written by MacNeil, Robert McCrum, and William Cran. Personal life and death MacNeil became a naturalized American citizen in 1997, and became an Order of Canada officer that same year. He was married to Rosemarie Coopland, Jane Doherty, and Donna Nappi Richards MacNeil. With Coopland, he was the father of award-winning theatre scenic designer Ian MacNeil. MacNeil was known to friends and family as "Robin". MacNeil died of natural causes at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan on April 12, 2024, at the age of 93, confirmed by his daughter Alison MacNeil. Awards and honors 1979: LHD honorary degree from Bates College 1997: Officer of the Order of Canada, one of Canada's highest civilian honors, for being "one of the most respected journalists of our time" 1990: Paul White Award, Radio Television Digital News Association 1991: Made a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1999: Television Hall of Fame 2008: Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism Books MacNeil also wrote books, many of which are about his career as a journalist. After his retirement from NewsHour, he also dabbled in writing novels. His books include: The People Machine: The Influence of Television on American Politics (1970). ISBN 978-0413276704. Wordstruck: A Memoir (1989) ISBN 978-0670818716. Eudora Welty: Seeing Black and White (1990). ISBN 978-0878054718. The Way We Were: 1963, the Year Kennedy Was Shot (1991). ISBN 978-0881844337. MacNeil, Robert (1992). Burden of Desire. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. ISBN 9780385420198. The Right Place at the Right Time (1990). ISBN 978-0140131208. The Voyage (1995). ISBN 978-0385469524. Macneil, Robert (1998). Breaking News (A Novel). Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. ISBN 9780385420204. The Story of English with Robert McCrum (accompanied by a PBS documentary miniseries in 1986) ISBN 978-0142002315. Looking for My Country: Finding Myself in America (2003). ISBN 978-0385507813. MacNeil, Robert; Cran, William (December 28, 2004). Do You Speak American?. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-51198-8. (accompanied by a PBS documentary miniseries in 2005) References External links Interview with Robert MacNeil | The Interviews: An Oral History of Television "Remembering Robert Macneil, Longtime Host of PBS 'NewsHour'", Fresh Air, NPR—two interviews and obituary Appearances on C-SPAN. Discover the W Neil popular books. Find the top 100 most popular W Neil books.
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J. Mike Smith v. Hon. Neil Caldwell
First District, Houston No. 01-87-00433-CV Court of Appeals of TexasON MOTION FOR REHEARING Lee Duggan, Jr., Justice I respectfully dissent from the order denying the motion for rehearing. I would grant the petition for writ of mandamus ...
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Alfred Edger Tollefson v. Neil A. Ehlers
Supreme Court of Missouri En BancThis action, arising out of an automobile accident, is brought by plaintiff as trustee for the heirs and next of kin of the decedent. Each defendant claimed at the trial that the a...
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Archie Neil Spain Plaintiff-Appellee V.
Supreme Court of Texaslibel and slander per se as a result of statements made on/or about December 23, 1977, by the defendant Donald Connolly that the plaintiff Archie Neil Spain, a Metropolitan Police ...
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R. W. Jones v. James Neil Jennings
Supreme Court of AlaskaThis matter comes before us on petition for review by the Municipality of Anchorage and two of its police officers (hereinafter "the municipality") from an order to produce documen...
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Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation v. Honorable Neil Caldwell
Supreme Court Of UtahIn this discovery mandamus, we consider the duration of the attorney work product privilege. Relator OwensCorning Fiberglas Corporation was ordered by Respondent, the Honorable Nei...
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How to Invest
David M. RubensteinNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA master class on investing featuring conversations with the biggest names in finance, from the legendary cofounder of The Carlyle Group, David M. Rubenste...
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Neil G. Delaney v. Fidelity Lease Limited
El Paso the Eighth Court of Civil AppealsThis is a suit by a landlord for damages for breach of a lease contract with the defendants being the lessee, Fidelity Lease Limited, a limited partnership, Interlease Corporation,...
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Nuestro destino en las estrellas
Doctor Fisión (@doctorfision)Desde siempre el ser humano ha sabido que su destino estaba en las estrellas y es que si lo piensas en realidad no somos más que polvo de estrellas. Sin embargo, hay algo especial ...
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Creepy Crawling
Jeffrey Melnick"Creepy crawling" was the Manson Family's practice of secretly entering someone's home and, without harming anyone, leaving only a trace of evidence that they had been there, some ...
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Neil Mcclain v. State
859 Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas No. 29The offense is the unlawful possession of beer and whiskey for the purpose of sale in a dry area; the punishment, a fine of $250.00.
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Neil Stuempges v. Parke
Supreme Court of Missouri1. Statements made by an employer regarding the work record of a former employee to one with a legitimate interest in the subject are conditionally privileged as long as they are m...
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Neil John v. State North Dakota and J.
Supreme Court of North DakotaNeb. Rev. Stat. § 442825(1) (Reissue 1998) of the Nebraska HospitalMedical Liability Act limits recoverable damages in medical malpractice actions to $1,250,000. The district cour...
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State Florida v. Jack Neil
Supreme Court of FloridaAbsent the criteria established in Swain v. Alabama, 380 U.S. 202, 85 S. Ct. 824, 13 L. Ed. 2d 759 (1965), may a party be required to state the basis for the exercise of a perempto...
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Neil Wayne Higginbotham v. State Texas
Supreme Court Of UtahAppellant, Neil Wayne Higginbotham, was convicted of murder and sentenced to 50 years in the Texas Department of Corrections. The Fourteenth Court of Appeals reformed the judgment ...
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Thomas Ray Breazeale and Wallace Neil Higgs v. State Texas
Thirteenth District, Corpus Christi Court of Appeals of TexasOn original submission, this Court, with Judge McCormick dissenting and Judge Campbell concurring in the result, affirmed the judgments of the Fourteenth Court of Appeals, which ha...
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Neil Wheeler v. Boyer Fire Apparatus
Supreme Court of North DakotaThis is an action to recover commissions claimed to be due the plaintiff from the defendant under a sales contract. The plaintiff is a foreign corporation and the summon...
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Neil Mickelson v. Airmen
Western District Missouri Court of AppealsBefore Lowenstein, Presiding Judge, Turnage and Berrey, Judges. Plaintiffs, Neil and Carol Ann Mickelson, appeal from the trial court's judgment in favor of defendants Charles Easl...
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The Imposter
Leona DeakinHe doesn't just want your identity. He wants your life...No one sees him coming.A stockmarket trader is pushed from a highrise balcony and falls to his death on the street below. T...
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Death and Douglas
J. W. OckerDouglas has grown up around the business of death. Generations of his family have run the Mortimer Family Funeral Home. The mortician and gravediggers are all his buddies. And the ...
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Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation v. Honorable Neil Caldwell
Supreme Court Of UtahOwensCorning Fiberglas Corporation (OCF) seeks mandamus relief, asking this Court to vacate Judge Neil Caldwells December 13, 1990, order appointing a master in the underlying liti...
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Neil Wayne Higginbotham v. State Texas
Fourteenth District, Houston Court of Appeals of TexasAppellant was convicted for the offense of murder. TEX. PENAL CODE ANN. § 19.02 (Vernon 1974). After rejecting appellants "not guilty" plea, the jury assessed punishment at fifty ...
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Neil William Byers v. State
337 Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas No. 26The plaintiff, individually and as executor and trustee under the will of Katherine E. Price, appealed from so much of the decree of the Probate...
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State Florida v. Neil J. Lahurd
Court of Appeal of FloridaBelz Investco Limited Partnership ("plaintiff"), appeals an order granting the appellees motions to dismiss for failure to state a cause of action and lack of personal jurisdiction...
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Your Own True Colors
Barbara BushAn inspiring and beautiful way to commemorate Barbara Bushthe complete text of her historic speech to the 1990 graduating class of Wellesley College, which NPR included in their li...
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The Living Legacy of W. McNeil Lowry
Frank KesselThis carefully curated collection of the writings and speeches of W. McNeil (Mac) Lowry will provide significant information about and insight into a remarkable period in the secon...
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Remington Arms Company v. Honorable Neil Caldwell
Supreme Court Of UtahThe opinion of February 10, 1993 is withdrawn and the following is substituted therefor. The issue presented is whether mandamus should issue to direct the trial court to vacate it...