during the first of three presidential debates before the 2008 election September 26, 2008 in the Gertrude Castellow Ford Center at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi. Both candidates arrived in Oxford after taking part in negotiations the previous day in Washington, D.C. to solve the current financial crisis.
Jim Lehrer, a well-respected journalist who anchored PBS’s “NewsHour” for 36 years, has died at age 85.
