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...newsmen reacted differently from their colleagues, willingly debating the pros and cons of their profession. One was NBC anchor Roger Mudd, the other was Robert MacNeil...
...anchor of the unique and highly acclaimed Public Broadcasting news program, the MacNeil/Lehrer Report. MacNeil has trekked around the globe as a foreign correspondent. The Canadian-born journalist began his career in London working for Independent Television News, moving on to the Reuters wire service before joining NBC in 1960. He shocked the TV news world seven years later by quiting the network and abandoning a shot at an anchor position. MacNeil said he was disgusted with NBC's news operation and that of its rivals...
Right Place offers more than analysis, however, MacNeil demonstrates that he is a master story teller as he recalls the danger, adventure and Exotica that most journalists only dream about...
...MacNeil did better than arrive at the right place at the right time; during his heyday in the 1960s, he was literally everywhere at the right time. He was in the Congo in 1960 during that country's bloody fight for independence. Subbing for a colleague, he was in Berlin the night East Germany began building the wall. He spent the Cuban missile crisis in Havana, residing in a government prison. Once again on substitute duty, he arrived in Dallas in November 1963 and later covered the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He covered the massive civil rights demonstrations...
Reported by Neil MacNeil and Evan Thomas/Washington