Peter Jennings
Peter Jennings
Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings, CMwas a Canadian-American journalist and news anchor. He was the sole anchor of ABC's World News Tonight from 1983 until his death in 2005 of complications from lung cancer. A high-school dropout, he transformed himself into one of American television's most prominent journalists...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionNews Anchor
Date of Birth29 July 1938
CityToronto, Canada
CountryCanada
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because he kept a childlike sense of awe about the world.
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I can't imagine that we would do anything radical about our coverage in the immediate future. The story has a whole new dimension with this measure of sovereignty, which is going to make this a really interesting story between now and the election.
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I think audiences, in times of trouble and good times, look for people on television who are basic, don't have airs, don't hype themselves.
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Now, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to play for you the Duke Ellington classic 'Take the Train' eh?
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I would think he would have wanted to be known for more than just that.
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He rearranged the show, while we were on air, he rearranged our travel plans while in the air, he even tried to arrange our personal lives, ... What Would Peter Do?
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It was a dreadful mistake, a foolish experiment,
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I'm deeply offended by how little Americans know about their country.
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I have a lot to learn from them, and 'living' is the key word.
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Without him, I find myself stumbling and in the darkà . Loving him so much and not having him with me is the hardest thing I've ever done.
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Without him, I find myself stumbling and in the dark. Loving him so much and not having him with me is the hardest thing I've ever done.
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Using Iraqi government figures, which we cannot verify - they may be high or they may be low, we do not know - almost 700 civilians have been killed in the country since the U.S. invaded.
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I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar.
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The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November.