Editing Robert MacNeil (section)

==Personal life and death==
MacNeil became a naturalized American citizen in 1997, and became an [[Order of Canada]] officer that same year.<ref name="obit" /><ref>{{cite news |last=Smith |first=Harrison |date=April 12, 2024 |title=Robert MacNeil, urbane anchor who founded 'PBS NewsHour,' dies at 93 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/04/12/robert-macneil-dead-newshour/ |access-date=April 19, 2024 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |archive-date=April 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240413015811/https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/04/12/robert-macneil-dead-newshour/ |url-status=live }}</ref> He was married to Rosemarie Coopland, Jane Doherty, and Donna Nappi Richards MacNeil.<ref>{{cite news |date=October 21, 1984 |title=Robert MacNeil Weds Miss Richards |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/21/style/robert-macneil-weds-miss-richards.html |access-date=April 13, 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130182216/http://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/21/style/robert-macneil-weds-miss-richards.html |url-status=live}}</ref> With Coopland, he was the father of award-winning theatre scenic designer [[Ian MacNeil (scenic designer)|Ian MacNeil]].<ref name="NYTimes-AtHome">{{cite news |last=Dullea |first=Georgia |title=At Home With: Robert and Ian MacNeil; A Father and a Son, Growing Up Again |date=May 5, 1994 |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/05/garden/at-home-with-robert-and-ian-macneil-a-father-and-a-son-growing-up-again.html?pagewanted=all |page=C1 |access-date=February 18, 2017 |archive-date=January 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160106225011/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/05/garden/at-home-with-robert-and-ian-macneil-a-father-and-a-son-growing-up-again.html?pagewanted=all |url-status=live}}</ref>

MacNeil was known to friends and family as "Robin".<ref name="pbs2024"/>

MacNeil died of [[natural causes]] at [[NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital]] in Manhattan on April 12, 2024, at the age of 93, confirmed by his daughter Alison MacNeil.<ref name="obit">{{cite news |last1=Jensen |first1=Elizabeth |date=April 12, 2024 |title=Robert MacNeil, Earnest News Anchor for PBS, Dies at 93 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/12/business/media/robert-macneil-dead.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240413015741/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/12/business/media/robert-macneil-dead.html |archive-date=April 13, 2024 |access-date=April 12, 2024 |newspaper=The New York Times |page=A19 |volume=173 |issue=60123}}</ref>