Francis "Frank" Clarence McGee, (November 4, 1882, Ottawa, Ontario - September 16, 1916) was a legendary ice hockey player during the early days of hockey for the Ottawa Senators, aka the Silver Seven. Although his senior career was very brief - only 45 games over four seasons - he led the Silver Seven to four Stanley Cup wins, playing both centre and rover.

Mr. McGee came from a prominent Canadian family. His late uncle, Thomas D’Arcy McGee, had been a Father of Confederation. His father, John Joseph McGee, was clerk of the Privy Council (considered the top civil servant position). After his education in Ottawa, McGee worked for the Canadian government Department of Indian Affairs, but he had a passion for sports and played lacrosse and rugby and excelled at ice hockey. While playing half-back for his rugby team, Ottawa City, he was a member of the team that won the Dominion championship in 1898.

Frank McGee (born September 12, 1921; died April 17, 1974) was a television journalist.

Born in Monroe, Louisiana and raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Frank McGee began his broadcast news career at WKY-TV (now KFOR-TV) in his hometown. In 1955, the owners of WKY purchased WSFA-TV in Montgomery, Alabama and sent McGee there as news director. WSFA was an affiliate of NBC. As the civil rights movement gained national coverage, McGee's work came to the notice of NBC, who offered him a position with the network.

McGee was a floor correspondent for the political conventions of both parties in 1960, 1964, and 1968. In 1960, he hosted the second debate between presidential candidates John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. At that time, the debates were considered by the news media to have swung the election in favor of Kennedy.

McGee had a great talent for descriptive language, often giving viewers a vivid word picture of the day's events. When NBC News's Chet Huntley broke the news of John F. Kennedy's assassination, McGee appeared in the studio with Huntley speaking on the phone with Robert MacNeil from Dallas. McGee was told that the television audience was not getting the audio from Dallas, so for more than an hour, he relayed every detail MacNeil gave, almost word for word, meaning viewers actually received the information twice. The veteran journalist remained on duty for 45 hours with little rest, reporting without a script.

In the early 1960s, he also served as a news reporter and host on the NBC weekend radio show Monitor. He is most noted for his interview on that program with the late Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and for asking him specifically how he felt about being targeted for assassination. King responded calmly and told McGee he had given serious thought to the possibility.

McGee was perhaps best known in the middle and late 1960s for hosting The Frank McGee Report, seen early Saturday and Sunday evenings. The half-hour program generally gave more attention to one or more topics than a regular newscast, sometimes employing a full documentary format. In 1969, NBC began a traditional Saturday evening newscast, and in 1970, a Sunday version, both of which replaced The Report. McGee, however, often anchored those weekend newscasts. For several months in 1970, McGee also anchored WNBC-TV's local 6 p.m. newscast.

In 1970, after Huntley's retirement ended the Huntley-Brinkley Report, McGee became one of a platoon of three anchors on the newly-renamed NBC Nightly News, along with John Chancellor and David Brinkley. When the network settled on Chancellor as permanent anchor the next year, McGee moved to The Today Show in 1971, replacing Hugh Downs, who had hosted the program since 1962. McGee moved Today into a more serious news presentation, insisting on opening and closing the show by himself while sharing other duties with co-host Barbara Walters. He also insisted that he, and not Ms. Walters, ask guests the first two or three questions if both of them were doing an interview.

He remained on Today until early April of 1974, when he was forced to leave the program due to an illness which was diagnosed as bone cancer. He succumbed to the disease on April 17 of that year while on sick leave from the show. McGee was replaced by another Oklahoma native, Jim Hartz, who co-hosted the show with Walters until 1976.

Frank McGee was a reporter for NBC News starting with the mid-1950s when he worked at the Montgomery, Alabama bureau. He, along with Chet Huntley and WNBC-TV reporter Bill Ryan broke the news to the American public of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Friday, November 22, 1963 - mostly repeating the words of field reporter Robert McNeil via telephone from Dallas, due to an audio fault in the New York studio. From 1971 until his death due to bone marrow cancer in 1974 (age 58) he served as co-host with Barbara Walters of the NBC Today show. A traditional, strait-laced, old-fashioned reporter and newscaster, McGee, like his contemporaries, had a great talent for descriptive language, painting visual pictures of events in the news, in the tradition of Edward R. Murrow. He also served as newscaster for the landmark NBC Radio program "Monitor" in the early 1960s.