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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. Despite dropping out of high school, Jennings transformed himself into one of American television's ...
Aug 8, 2005 · Jennings was offered a reporting job and left Canada for New York. As the third-place news network, ABC figured its only chance was to go after young viewers.
Pioneer. Jennings, Peter (1938-2005) 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.
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He was there for every big story, be it war or weather. Jennings, who announced in April that he had lung cancer, died Sunday at his New York home, ABC News President David Westin said in a ...
Aug 8, 2005 · ABC's Peter Jennings dies. Peter Jennings, the Canadian-born anchor of ABC's flagship network news program for more than two decades, has died of lung cancer. Jennings, who was 67, died at...
Aug 8, 2005 · In 1964, Jennings moved to the United States, where he was hired as a correspondent at ABC. Following a brief appointment as host of the 15-minutes newscast Peter Jennings With the News, he quit to become a foreign correspondent for ABC. For more than a decade, he traveled around the world to report on stories from Vietnam to Beirut.
Aug 7, 2015 · Friday, August 7, 2015. Peter Jennings sits behind the ABC News ''World News Tonight'' desk in 2001. August 6, 2015 marks the 10th anniversary of his death. AP. Legendary ABC News anchor Peter ...
