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Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings CM (July 29, 1938 – August 7, 2005) was a Canadian-American television journalist, best known for serving as the sole anchor of ABC World News Tonight from 1983 until his death from lung cancer in 2005.
Aug 3, 2024 · Peter Jennings was a Canadian-born American television journalist whose easygoing and detached manner, calm delivery, and knowledgeable air earned his audience’s respect and trust and, from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, took ABC’s World News Tonight to the top of the ratings.
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Peter Jennings in 1965 became the youngest national network news anchor ever appointed in the U.S, when he was invited to join ABC. He was 27. Unfortunately, an expected audience increase didn’t materialize. Critics blamed his Canadian background, youth and lack of worldly experience.
Aug 9, 2005 · It meant that Jennings ran into periodic political storms over such issues as Fidel Castro's rule in Cuba and, most recently, over his presumed view of the war in Iraq.
Aug 8, 2005 · Host Michele Norris has a remembrance for ABC News anchorman Peter Jennings, who has died of lung cancer at the age of 67. Jennings manned the anchor desk for parts of five decades.
- Michele Norris
Aug 8, 2005 · Peter Jennings, 67, the urbane anchorman of ABC's evening newscast for the past 22 years, died yesterday at his home in New York, his network announced. Jennings had not been on the air since...
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As anchor and senior editor for the American Broadcasting Company’s (ABC’s) World News Tonight from 1983 to 2005, Jennings acquired a reputation as a sophisticated newsman with a solid knowledge of global issues and an ability to improvise intelligently.
