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	Peter Jennings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings, CM (July 29, 1938 – August 7, 2005) was a Canadian-American lead news anchor for the ABC network from the 1980s to the 2000s.
		Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Jennings was the son of Charles Jennings, the first news anchor and head of the news department at the CBC.
		On September 18, 2005, Peter Jennings was later remembered at the 57th Emmy Awards in Los Angeles in a special memoriam tribute with TV anchors Brokaw and Rather as the speakers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Jennings (2572 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Peter Jennings
		Many Canadian viewers knew of Jennings' deep roots in their country – that he was born in Toronto, that he began his broadcasting career in Canada; that his ABC newscast always seemed to have more "Can-Con" than the other U.S. networks.
		Jennings maintained a cottage in Quebec's Gatineau Hills and kept in touch with former colleagues in Ottawa.
		Peter Jennings is survived by his wife, Kayce, and two children from a previous marriage.
	www.cbc.ca /news/obit/jennings_peter (1277 words)

	ABC Anchor Peter Jennings dies at 67 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jennings had disclosed that he was suffering from lung cancer on April 5, first in a written statement released by ABC and later that night on "World News Tonight," the evening news broadcast that he had led since September 1983.
		Jennings told several dozen staff members who had gathered around his desk about the doctors and other patients he had been meeting and of a first-time radiation treatment that he had just received, according to one veteran correspondent who did not wish to be identified so as not to offend Mr.
		Jennings brought himself and many of his colleagues to tears when he turned to Charles Gibson, one of his two principal substitutes on the program, and thanked him for closing each night's broadcast with the phrase, "for Peter Jennings and all of us at ABC News." Mr.
	heraldtribune.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050808/ZNYT01/508080664 (2378 words)

	ABC News: Peter Jennings
		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.
		Jennings led the network's coverage of the Sept. 11 attacks and America's subsequent war on terrorism.
		Jennings established the first American television news bureau in the Arab world in 1968 when he served as ABC News' bureau chief for Beirut, Lebanon, a position he held for seven years.
	abcnews.go.com /WNT/story?id=126542 (1125 words)

	Online NewsHour: ABC News Anchor Peter Jennings Dies of Lung Cancer -- August 8, 2005
		PETER JENNINGS: It's a decision to be an Arab state or not.
		PETER JENNINGS: If I were to guess at the moment at which of the commando organizations this group is to come from, I'd be most likely to narrow in on a group called Black September.
		PETER JENNINGS: I've been reminding my colleagues today, who have all been incredibly supportive, that almost ten million Americans are already living with cancer, and I have a lot to learn from them.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/remember/july-dec05/jennings_8-08.html (2030 words)

	AskMen.com - Peter Jennings pics
		Jennings was the ABC News Bureau Chief in Beirut, Lebanon, for seven years, where he established the first American television news bureau in the Middle East.
		In 1991, Jennings dethroned Dan Rather as the king of the evening news during the Gulf War, thanks to his extensive knowledge of the area (Jennings was one of the only ones from the Western front who got to interview Saddam Hussein).
		Peter Jennings will be remembered as a distinguished journalist who recognized that he had "lived a good life," as he stated in his final days.
	www.askmen.com /men/business_politics/39c_peter_jennings.html (879 words)

	Peter Jennings @ Famous.y2u.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jennings died of lung cancer on August 7, 2005 at the age of 67.
		Jennings was a frequent target of charges of "liberal bias" by certain conservative groups, such as the Media Research Center.[1] Supporters of Jennings contended that most critical reports of him consisted of inaccuracies or out-of-context quotes.
		Jennings would have obviously insisted on covering any world news story, so when absent in Rome, Italy for the death of Pope John Paul II and unable to journey to Asia to report on the aftermath of the tsunami, it was very much taken to notice.
	famous.y2u.co.uk /F_Peter_Jennings.Htm (1870 words)

	Peter Jennings: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Peter Jennings is the son of Charles Jennings, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Jennings remains the only lead anchor left in evening network news to have continued in the job for over 20 years, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Peter mansbridge (born 1948) is a canadian journalist and anchor of "the national," the flagship nightly newscast of the canadian broadcasting corporation...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pe/peter_jennings.htm (1380 words)

	Peter Jennings on War and Terrorism -- Media Research Center -- MRC Spotlight
		Peter Jennings and ABC were worried about a comment, attributed to President Bush, that the President would have Saddam assassinated if he had the chance.
		Peter Jennings led his newscast with "the inspectors want more time to do their job." Both CBS and NBC led their programs with the fact that Iraq has failed to comply with the United Nations resolution.
		Peter Jennings, on the road in Amman, Jordan, said there “are a lot of people who think the Bush administration is being too aggressive about Iraq.” Jennings then added that the King of Jordan thinks the Iraqi people fear Saddam Hussein more than Bush.
	www.mediaresearch.org /mrcspotlight/jennings/welcome.asp (2969 words)

	Jennings, Peter
		Jennings was ten years old when he received his first anchor job for Peter's Program, a Saturday morning radio show which showcased young talent.
		Jennings was credited with establishing the first American television news bureau in the Middle East and served for seven years as ABC News Bureau Chief in Beirut, Lebanon.
		Peter Jennings died of lung cancer on August 7, 2005.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/J/htmlJ/jenningspet/jenningspet.htm (957 words)

	USATODAY.com - Peter Jennings dies from lung cancer at 67 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jennings had stepped away from the ABC News desk after announcing in April that he had lung cancer.
		Jennings never completed high school or college, and began his career as a reporter at a radio station in Brockville, Ontario.
		Jennings reported from Berlin in the 1960s when the Berlin Wall was going up, and he was there in the 1990s when it came down.
	usatoday.com /life/television/news/2005-08-07-jennings-dies_x.htm?... (970 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| TV and Radio \| Obituary: Peter Jennings
		Peter Jennings was the face of America's ABC News, both as anchor and correspondent, for more than 40 years, covering events from the Vietnam war to 9/11.
		Peter Jennings was born in Toronto, in 1938.
		Peter Jennings became a broadcaster at the age of nine, when he hosted a Saturday morning radio show.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4131006.stm (571 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Peter Jennings' Unfortunate Legacy by Debbie Schlussel
		Jennings mentioned absolutely nothing about Hamdi's disturbing activities, but did note that Hamdi was his friend and repeatedly featured Hamdi in post-9/11 ABC News broadcasts.
		While Jenning's death is a human tragedy, it is sad that his despicable brand of advocacy journalism -- parading as "news" -- wasn't laid to rest along with him.
		It was Peter Jennings' slanted world, and every day he acted as if he was doing us a favor giving us his warped look at it.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19098 (909 words)

	News Dissector Blog » Remembering Peter Jennings
		Peter was never trained as a journalist, and in fact did not graduate from college or high school, which gives hope to those of us who believe in a more participatory type of citizens' journalism.
		Peter did specials on the war for children, but did not depart from the basic Pentagon narrative in most of his reporting for adults.
		Their reporter was impressed that Jennings almost alone among the anchors asked after 9/11, "Why does the world seem to hate us?" Their implication was that as a result of his probing, he worked in fear of being singled out for not being patriotic enough and became super-stressed.
	www.newsdissector.org /blog/2005/08/09/remembering-peter-jennings (2151 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| TV and Radio \| Veteran newsreader Jennings dies
		Jennings, who announced that he was suffering from lung cancer in April, died at his home in New York.
		Jennings, who became an anchor for ABC in 1965, was in Berlin for both the building and fall of the Berlin Wall - and hosted the World News Tonight programme since 1983.
		Jennings returned to the evening news in 1978 when ABC renamed its broadcast World News Tonight and employed a three-person anchor team: Frank Reynolds based in Washington, Max Robinson from Chicago and Jennings, from London.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4130510.stm (428 words)

	Red State Son: Peter Jennings
		Marton undermined this belief, and that she was married to Peter Jennings made matters even more sinister.
		Jennings went directly to me, standing at a mike, attempting to hide my extreme nervousness since I knew that my question would be considered insane.
		During the build-up to the first Gulf War, when antiwar critics were being compared to Nazis, Jennings delivered a balanced look at the movement (divided though it was), and was the only network anchor to meet with antiwar media critics who marched on the Big Three to protest their slanted coverage.
	redstateson.blogspot.com /2005/08/peter-jennings.html (836 words)

	CNN.com - Peter Jennings: A lifetime of being curious - Aug 8, 2005
		Peter was on the air live, hour after hour, without a script, instantly synthesizing and explaining for the audience what we knew, and, just as importantly, what we did not know.
		Then there were those times Peter would love your first draft so much he'd look at you and ask, with a twinkle in his eye: "Did you write that yourself?" Yes, he loved to rib the people he worked with.
		When Peter Jennings interviewed me for the writer's job, he told me: "On this program we never talk down to the audience." He truly loved to communicate what he learned and believed the audience wanted to share in that learning experience.
	www.cnn.com /2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/08/08/jennings.essay (1013 words)

	Peter Jennings - Wikiquote
		Peter Charles Jennings (29 July 1938 – 7 August 2005) Canadian-American journalist; news anchor for the ABC network since 1978 and the sole anchor from 1983 through early 2005.
		Peter especially, I think, summarized for all of us the feelings that Dan and I have—the three of us have—when people often ask, "Are you friends?" And Peter said, "Yes, we are friends because we don't see each other that often."...
		Peter Jennings covered many of the most defining moments in the world’s post-war history: he witnessed the Berlin Wall coming up in the 1960s and down in 1989, the struggle for equality in South Africa, the Gulf War and most recently, the September 2001 terrorists attacks.
	en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Peter_Jennings (1934 words)

	IPFA 2005 - Peter Jennings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		CPJ will also honor the late Peter Jennings, anchor and senior editor of ABC's "World News Tonight." Jennings' career was intertwined with the major events of the past four decades.
		Jennings was one of the first reporters to go to Vietnam in the 1960s, and he reported from Bosnia in the 1990s.
		His special series, "Peter Jennings Reporting," focused on vital international affairs such as the tense relations between India and Pakistan, the crisis in Haiti, and the drug trade in Central and South America.
	www.cpj.org /awards05/jennings.html (317 words)

	Peter Jennings Remembered - CBS News
		Jennings' widow, Kayce, was startled recently when a homeless man approached to express sympathy for her loss; Jennings had befriended him during walks in Central Park.
		Jennings frequently served meals to the homeless after leaving the ABC News studio and that night's broadcast of "World News Tonight," said Mary Brosnahan Sullivan of the Coalition for the Homeless.
		Jennings never lost his Canadian identity, an honor guard from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police marched at the service, but was proud to also become a U.S. citizen a few years before he died.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/09/20/entertainment/main870732.shtml (761 words)

	CBC Arts: 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.
		Peter Jennings at a party marking his 20 years as anchor of ABC's 'World News Tonight' in New York in 2003.
		Jennings, who was 67, died at his home in New York on Sunday, ABC News president David Westin said.
	www.cbc.ca /story/arts/national/2005/08/08/Arts/jennings2-050807.html (718 words)

	AskMen.com - Peter Jennings
		Peter Jennings was the anchor of ABC's World News Tonight since 1983.
		Peter Jennings had one of the most recognizable faces and names in media.
		Peter Jennings was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on July 29, 1938.
	www.askmen.com /men/business_politics/39_peter_jennings.html (287 words)

	Steven Waldman remembers Peter Jennings, friend of Beliefnet -- Beliefnet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jennings on Jesus, Paul, and why conservative Christians don't trust the mainstream media.
		We at Beliefnet have had the honor of working with Peter for five years, helping him and ABC with religion coverage, a partnership launched entirely out of his personal interest and conviction that faith was one of the most important facets of human life.
		Jennings was uncomfortable talking about his own spiritual life because fundamentally he viewed the topic as a journalist.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/172/story_17231_1.html (700 words)

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		Peter Jennings was Anchorman and Senior Editor of ABC Television's "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings" until he announced he had lung cancer in April 2005.
		Jennings did not mention that in the socialist nanny state of Sweden, children have been taken away from parents who were declared unfit for being overweight.
		Peter Jennings died of lung cancer on Sunday, August 7, 2005 at the age of 67.
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=1733 (2882 words)

	USATODAY.com - World leaders, network competitors remember Jennings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jennings was the last of the modern-day Big Three network anchors —; NBC's Tom Brokaw retired in December 2004 and CBS' Dan Rather stepped down in March.
		From left, Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather at the Museum of Television and Radio's 2004 gala.
		Jennings made up for his like of formal schooling with intense curiosity and becoming a student of the world, studying cultures and their people for the rest of his life.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2005-08-08-jennings-natural-anchor_x.htm (791 words)

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