
ABOUT
Canadian novelist, journalist, and TV news anchor best known for co-creating The MacNeil/Lehrer Report on PBS.He received an Emmy Award for his PBS coverage of the Senate's Watergate hearings.He was covering President John F. Kennedy's fateful 1963 visit to Dallas when he encountered a man who may have been Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. MacNeil, not knowing the identity of a man he saw leaving the Texas School Book Depository, asked for directions to the nearest telephone.
BEFORE FAMEHe was raised in Nova Scotia and attended Dalhousie University and Carleton University.
PERSONAL LIFEHe was born in Montreal, Canada to Margaret Virginia Oxner and Robert A. S. MacNeil. He became a U.S. citizen in 1997.
Famous QuotesThe greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.
TV Show Host Robert MacNeil were born on Monday, birthstone is Garnet, the seaon was Winter in the Chinese year of Goat, it is 12 days until Robert MacNeil next birthday.