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James Charles Lehrer

Lehrer on the "NewsHour" set
Born:	May 19, 1934 Wichita, Kansas
Occupation:	news anchor
Spouse:	Kate Lehrer
Children:	three
Website:	PBS biography

James Charles Lehrer (pronounced [lɛɹə]) (born May 19, 1934) is the news anchor for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS. Lehrer is also an acclaimed author, writing both non-fiction and fiction which draws on his life experiences and his interests in history and politics.

Contents 1 History 2 Written works 2.1 Books 2.2 Films 2.3 Plays 3 References 4 External links 5 External links

Lehrer was born in Wichita, Kansas, and attended middle school in Beaumont, Texas. He graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio, Texas, where he was one of the three sports editors at the Jefferson Declaration. He also graduated from Victoria College and the University of Missouri.

After three years in the United States Marine Corps, he began his news career in Dallas, first as a newspaperman, covering the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963 and then later, 1970 - 73, as the anchor on a local single-story in-depth news show - "Newsroom," on KERA-TV, the local PBS affiliate. Lehrer started work with PBS network in 1973, 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.

Nicknamed the "Dean of Moderators"^[1] by CNN's Bernard Shaw, Lehrer has been the moderator for ten debates among candidates vying for President of the United States of America. Most recently he moderated the first presidential debate between George W. Bush and John Kerry during the 2004 election campaign on September 30, 2004.

Lehrer is well known as a bus enthusiast. He is a major supporter of the Pacific Bus Museum in Williams, California, and the Museum of Bus Transportation in Hershey, Pennsylvania. His father was a bus driver and also briefly operated a bus company. As a college student, he worked as a Trailways ticket agent.

He is married to the novelist Kate Lehrer, and has three children and six grandchildren. He was awarded the Presidential National Humanities Medal in 1999.

Note: This list is incomplete.

• The Phony Marine (Random House, 2006) ISBN 1-4000-6486-4
• The Franklin Affair (Random House, 2005) ISBN 1-4000-6198-9
• False Moves (Random House, 2005) ISBN 1-4000-6198-9
• Flying Crows: A Novel (Random House, 2004) ISBN 1-4000-6197-0
• 20 Good Reasons to Study the Civil War by John C. Waugh, Jim Lehrer (McWhiney Foundation Press, 2004) ISBN 1-893114-46-5
• No Certain Rest (Random House, 2002) ISBN 0-375-50372-2
• The Special Prisoner (Random House, 2000) ISBN 0-375-50371-4
• White Widow (Random House, 1999) ISBN 0-517-36148-5
• Purple Dots (Random House, 1998) ISBN 0-679-45237-0
• The Last Debate (Random House, 1997) ISBN 0-517-17761-7
• Fine Lines (Random House, 1995) ISBN 0-517-16435-3
• Blue Hearts (Random House, 1993) ISBN 0-679-42216-1
• A Bus of My Own (Putnam, 1992) ISBN 0-399-13765-3
• Short List (Putnam, 1992) ISBN 0-399-13665-7
• Lost and Found (Putnam, 1991) ISBN 0-399-13601-0
• The Sooner Spy (Putnam, 1990) ISBN 0-399-13536-7
• Crown Oklahoma (Putnam, 1989) ISBN 0-399-13434-4
• Kick the Can (Putnam, 1988) ISBN 0-399-13350-X
• We Were Dreamers (Atheneum, 1975) ISBN 0-689-10693-9
• Viva Max!

Viva Max! (1970) writing credit with Elliott Baker

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

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• PBS biography
• Jim Lehrer at the Internet Movie Database
• 1998 UW Commencement Speech

Preceded by Robert MacNeil	The Robert MacNeil Report/The MacNeil/Lehrer Report/The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer anchor 1975–present	Succeeded by Incumbent
Lehrer co-anchored with MacNeil from 1975 to 1995.

• Homepage of PBS' The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
• The Newshour with Jim Lehrer Biography
• Archive of American Television interview
• Jim Lehrer discusses his novel, The Phony Marine (video)