First PBS NewsHour anchor Robert MacNeil dies at 93

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Robert MacNeil, the first anchor of what’s now known as PBS NewsHour, died Friday at 93.

MacNeil died of natural causes, according to his daughter Alison. He was at New York-Presbyterian Hospital at the time of his death.

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