This article is about the Canadian-American journalist. For other uses, see Peter Jennings (disambiguation).
Peter Jennings
CM
Jennings in 2002
Born
Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings
(1938-07-29)July 29, 1938
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Died
August 7, 2005(2005-08-07) (aged 67)
New York City, U.S.
Citizenship
Canada
United States
Occupation
Television journalist
Years active
1947–2005
Notable credits
ABC Evening Report/Peter Jennings with the News (1965–1967)
ABC World News Tonight Foreign Desk Anchor (1978–1983)
Anchor (1983–2005)
ABC News reporter (1964–2005)
Spouses
Valerie Godsoe (div.)
Anoushka Malauf (div.)
Kati Marton
(m. 1979; div. 1993)
Kayce Freed
(m. 1997)
[1]
Children
2
Parents
Charles Jennings
Elizabeth Jennings
Peter Charles Archibald Ewart JenningsCM (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 most prominent journalists.
Jennings started his career early, hosting a Canadian radio show at age 9. He began his professional career with CJOH-TV in Ottawa during its early years, anchoring the local newscasts and hosting the teen dance show Saturday Date on Saturdays. In 1965, ABC News tapped him to anchor its flagship evening news program. Critics and others in the television news business attacked his inexperience, making his job difficult. He became a foreign correspondent in 1968, reporting from the Middle East.
Jennings returned as one of World News Tonight's three anchormen in 1978, and he was promoted to sole anchorman in 1983. He was also known for his marathon coverage of breaking news stories, staying on the air for 15 hours or more to anchor the live broadcast of events such as the Gulf War in 1991, the millennium celebrations in 1999–2000, and the September 11 attacks in 2001. In addition to anchoring, he was the host of many ABC News special reports and moderator of several American presidential debates. He was always fascinated with the United States and became an American citizen in 2003.
Along with former television anchors Tom Brokaw of NBC Nightly News and Dan Rather of CBS Evening News, Jennings was one of the "Big Three" news anchormen who dominated American evening network news from the early 1980s to the mid-2000s. Jennings' death closely followed the retirements from anchoring evening news programs of Brokaw in 2004 and Rather in 2005.
^Lipton, Mike; Lynch, Jason (2005). "Peter Jennings: 1938-2005". People. Vol. 64, no. 8. Archived from the original on May 29, 2018. Retrieved May 28, 2018.
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