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Longtime PBS NewsHour anchor Jim Lehrer dies at 85

By Madison Dibble
Published January 23, 2020 6:40pm ET
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Longtime PBS NewsHour anchor Jim Lehrer dies at 85
Jim Lehrer, the longtime host of PBS NewsHour, died on Thursday at the age of 85. Lehrer spent his career in journalism beginning with the Dallas Morning News in 1959. He then moved to the Dallas Times-Herald where he covered the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In the late 1960s, Lehrer left print to […]

Jim Lehrer, the longtime host of PBS NewsHour, died on Thursday at the age of 85.

Lehrer spent his career in journalism beginning with the Dallas Morning News in 1959. He then moved to the Dallas Times-Herald where he covered the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

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