Obituary: Robert MacNeil, Canadian-born journalist who was one of the original hosts of PBS's News Hour (the other was the late Jim Lehrer), has died at the age of 93.
He was among the last surviving journalists who reported on the JFK assassination.
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He was on the ground in Dallas when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. He interviewed Martin Luther King Jr., Ayatollah Khomeini, Fidel Castro, and former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. But he had his biggest breakthrough with the 1973 gavel-to-gavel primetime coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings.
That Emmy-winning series of special reports was also the turning point for the future of daily news on PBS, leading to the creation of The Robert MacNeil Report, before it was renamed The MacNeil/Lehrer Report, The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, and other subsequent iterations, all the way up to the PBS NewsHour. As co-founder and anchor, he helped guide millions through extraordinary times with his intelligent, passionate and humane storytelling.
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Another obituary: the world's oldest conjoined twins, the Schappell twins of Pennsylvania, have died at the age of 62. They died on Sunday. Despite being joined at the skull, they managed to have halfway normal lives.
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