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Jim Lehrer

Jim Lehrer (born May 19, 1934 in Wichita, Kansas) is the news anchor for The Newshour with Jim Lehrer on PBS. He attended middle school in Beaumont, Texas, and graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio, Texas, where he was one of the three sports editors at the Jefferson Declaration. He graduated from Victoria College in Texas and the University of Missouri.

After three years in the US Marine Corps, he began his news career in Dallas, first as a newspaperman, and then later as the anchor on a local news show. Lehrer started work with PBS in 1972, and in 1975 started The MacNeil/Lehrer Report with Robert MacNeil. The show was later renamed The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, and in its most recent incarnation is known as The Newshour with Jim Lehrer.

In 1999 Lehrer was awarded the presidential National Humanities Medal.

He is married to the novelist Kate Lehrer, and has three children and six grandchildren.

Table of contents

1 Written Works 1.1 Books 1.2 Plays 1.3 External Links

Written Works

Books

• The Last Debate
• The Special Prisoner
• White Widow
• Purple Dots
• Fine Lines
• Blue Hearts
• A Bus of My Own
• Short List
• Lost and Found
• The Sooner Spy
• Crown Oklahoma
• Kick the Can
• We Were Dreamers
• Viva Max!

Plays

• The Will and Bart Show
• Church Key Charlie Blue
• Chili Queen

External Links

• Homepage of PBS' The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
• The Newshour with Jim Lehrer Biography

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