Jim Lehrer, co-founder and longtime anchor of 'PBS NewsHour,' dies at 85

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A very good newscaster.

Jim Lehrer, a longtime anchorman for PBS who appeared on the air for more than 30 years until his retirement in 2011, died Thursday at 85, the news organization announced.

Lehner died “peacefully in his sleep,” according to PBS. He had suffered a heart attack in 1983 and more recently, had undergone heart valve surgery in April 2008.

"It is with great sadness that we share the news that co-founder and anchor of @NewsHour Jim Lehrer has passed away," PBS tweeted.

In a tribute, PBS's Anne Azzi Davenport and Jeffrey Brown described Lehrer as an "anchor of several iterations of the 'NewsHour'" who "reported the news with a clear sense of purpose and integrity, even as the world of media changed around him."

Lehrer was born in 1934 in Wichita, Kansas, and attended Victoria College in Texas before studying journalism at the University of Missouri, PBS reported. He also served three years as an infantry officer in the late 1950s.