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TITLE: Jim Lehrer, Part 1

SPEAKER: Jim Lehrer
EVENT DATE: 10/12/2002
RUNNING TIME: 20 minutes

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Speaker Biography: Jim Lehrer moved from a newspaper career to public broadcasting and a long-term journalism partnership with Robert MacNeil in the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, now The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. He is the recipient of the National Humanities Medal and the George Foster Peabody Broadcast Award. A prolific author, Lehrer has written two memoirs, three plays and 13 novels including the most recent, "No Certain Rest." He lives in Washington, D.C.

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SERIES: National Book Festival 2002