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Robert MacNeil on the logistics of The MacNeil Lehrer NewsHour and hiring staff for the show

Robert MacNeil on doing the assignments for The MacNeil Lehrer NewsHour  and writing his scripts

Robert MacNeil on how he goes about researching a story he's covering and his interview technique

Robert MacNeil on the difference between serious journalism and not serious journalism

Robert MacNeil on the journalist's code of ethics

Robert MacNeil on being on a bus directly following John F. Kennedy's Presidential motorcade in Dallas to cover the story for NBC news; witnessing the assassination; inadvertently running into the Texas Book Depository to call the newsroom where he later learned the shots were believed to be fired from; and how he managed to continue to call the story in from a payphone at the hospital where Kennedy had been pronounced dead after all the reporters were kicked out.

Stephen J. Cannell on creating and producing The Commish starring Michael Chiklis