BREAKING: Jim Lehrer, co-founder and longtime anchor of the PBS NewsHour, has died, Judy Woodruff says.
President Barack Obama answers a question from debate moderate Jim Lehrer during a presidential debate at the University of Denver on Oct. 3, 2012.Lehrer began as a newspaper reporter. He went from covering the assassination of John F. Kennedy as a young journalist in Dallas to broadcast reports with Robert MacNeil on the Watergate hearings, which led to the launch of their joint nightly news report.
“I’m heartbroken at the loss of someone who was central to my professional life, a mentor to me and someone whose friendship I’ve cherished for decades,” said Judy Woodruff, anchor and managing editor of the PBS NewsHour. “I’ve looked up to him as the standard for fair, probing and thoughtful journalism and I know countless others who feel the same way.”Lehrer was born in 1934 in in Wichita, Kansas, to a bank clerk and a bus station manager.
He graduated from Victoria College in Texas and then studied journalism at the University of Missouri. Lehrer served three years as an infantry officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, and although he didn't see combat, he said the experienced influenced him greatly. “Seldom a day goes by that I don’t know that I am doing something because of something I learned in the Marine Corps,” he said at a 2010
Lehrer is survived by his wife, Kate; three daughters, Jamie, Lucy, and Amanda; and six grandchildren.
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