Jim Lehrer

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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 has commonly been one of the moderators during debates in recent United States presidential elections.

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 Films
1.3 Plays

2 External links

Written Works

Books

False Moves (Random House, 2005) ISBN 1400061989
Flying Crows: A Novel (Random House, 2004) ISBN 1400061970
20 Good Reasons to Study the Civil War by John C. Waugh, Jim Lehrer (McWhiney Foundation Press, 2004) ISBN 1893114465
No Certain Rest (Random House, 2002) ISBN 0375503722
The Special Prisoner (Random House, 2000) ISBN 0375503714
White Widow (Random House, 1999) ISBN 0517361485
Purple Dots (Random House, 1998) ISBN 0679452370
The Last Debate (Random House, 1997) ISBN 0517177617
Fine Lines (Random House, 1995) ISBN 0517164353
Blue Hearts (Random House, 1993) ISBN 0679422161
A Bus of My Own (Putnam, 1992) ISBN 0399137653
Short List (Putnam, 1992) ISBN 0399136657
Lost and Found (Putnam, 1991) ISBN 0399136010
The Sooner Spy (Putnam, 1990) ISBN 0399135367
Crown Oklahoma (Putnam, 1989) ISBN 0399134344
Kick the Can (Putnam, 1988) ISBN 039913350X
We Were Dreamers (Atheneum, 1975) ISBN 0689106939
Viva Max!

Films

Viva Max! (1970) writing credit with Elliott Baker

Plays

The Will and Bart Show
Church Key Charlie Blue
Chili Queen

External links

Homepage of PBS' The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/)
The Newshour with Jim Lehrer Biography (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ww/jim_lehrer.html)

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