The show you now know as the PBS News Hour went on the air 50 years ago.
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“The Robert MacNeil Report” first appeared on television screens on Oct. 20, 1975, an outgrowth of MacNeil and Jim Lehrer’s unprecedented gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings two years earlier.
In the past five decades, our team has covered the biggest stories and interviewed leaders around the world. Here’s a major moment from every year we’ve been on air.
