Video: In fascinating PBS interview, MacNeil and Lehrer recall covering Kennedy assassination in Dallas

Of all the coverage marking today’s 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, I have found this to be the most fascinating.

Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer later co-anchored the PBS Newshour for many years but had not yet met on Nov. 22, 1963 — the day President Kennedy was killed.

Both men covered the president’s visit — MacNeil for NBC News and Lehrer for The Dallas Times Herald.

They returned to their old program last night to talk about the morning leading up to the assassination, the days following, the conspiracy theories that persist 50 years later and how the tragedy shaped their careers as reporters.