This article is about the Canadian-American journalist. For other uses, see Peter Jennings (disambiguation).
Peter Jennings
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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
Occupation
Television journalist
Years active
1947–2005
Notable credits
CTV (1961-1964)
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
(m. 1963; div. 1970)
Anoushka Malauf
(m. 1973; div. 1979)
Kati Marton
(m. 1979; div. 1993)R
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Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life
Peter Jennings was the sole anchor of ABC's World News Tonight from 1983 until his death from cancer in 2005. For many Americans, he was the röst and face that gave shape and meaning to every day's news. But who was Peter Jennings really? In this absorbing biography, readers will get to know Jennings through the memories of his friends, family, competitors, colleagues, and interview subjects. Their stories are full of surprises. Jennings, we learn, was a high school dropout who spent the rest of his life in pursuit of knowledge. He traveled the world in search of stories, a notebook perpetually thrust through his back belt loop. In his front pocket, he carried a miniature kopia of the Constitution, a testament to his love for the United States; a Canadian by birth, Jennings acquired American citizenship in 2003.
Peter Jennings was a celebrity, of course -- a dashingly handsome and elegant man, famous for his ability to charm women and w
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Year Born:
1938
Year Died:
2005
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.
But in 1983 Peter was appointed anchor and senior editor of World News Tonight and went on to gain international acclaim.
Peter was born in Toronto, son of Charles Jennings who was the first Canadian news announcer to broadcast nationally and later became a CBC vice-president.
By the age of nine, Peter had his own half-hour weekly children’s radio show on CBC, called Peter’s People. On leaving school, he started work in a bank but followed his father into broadcasting in 1959, joining radio station CFJR Brockville, Ont. He provided CBC with coverage of a train wreck and as