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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 7, 2015 · As one of America's most distinguished journalists, Jennings reported many of the pivotal events that have shaped our world, including the signing of the Voting Rights Act, the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall and the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Peter Jennings Reporting was a continuing series of documentaries produced and hosted by ABC News anchor Peter Jennings that aired on ABC. Many of these documentaries were produced by Jennings's production company, PJ Productions, and are currently distributed in DVD format by Koch Vision .
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Jun 26, 2000 · This fascinating documentary provides extensive insights into the 2,000-year-old story of Christianity and the man whose life continues to inspire devotion and debate. Peter Jennings goes to the Holy Land and retraces the footsteps, and the life, of the man known in his day as Jesus of Nazareth.
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Aug 3, 2024 · One of the big three TV news anchors—along with Tom Brokaw at NBC and Dan Rather at CBS—he reported on the major news events of his era, from the world’s news hot spots as well as from behind the anchor desk, and became one of the most familiar faces on American TV.
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Oct 1, 2004 · October 1, 2004, 2:35 PM. -- Peter Jennings was the anchor and senior editor of ABC's "World News Tonight," where he established a reputation for independence and excellence in broadcast journalism. He was the network's principal anchor for breaking news, election coverage and special events.
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Jan 8, 2018 · Peter Jennings, a high school dropout from Canada who became one of the most recognized and respected broadcast journalists in the world, penned those words with co-author Todd Brewster in the bestseller, The Century — a companion book to ABC’s 1999 critically acclaimed 12-hour series. Today, they stand as a footnote to Jennings’ history.
