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Birthday
Peter Jennings was born on July 19th 1938 in Ontario Canada -
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Peter Jennings
Peter Jennings was born on July 19 1938 and died on August 7th 2005 -
Newby
In 1959 jennings was hired at CFJR, a local radio station as a member of the news department. -
Producer
In 1961 when he was just started out as a helper, a news cast was first broadcasted and Jennongs was hired as co-producer for VUE, a late night talk show -
Heading for America and away we go!
In 1964, CTV sent Jennings to cover the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey. There, he ran into Elmer Lower, then president of ABC News, who offered him a job as a correspondent for the American network, an opportunity Jennings initially rejected. "The job was pretty intimidating for a guy like me in a tiny city in Canada," Jennings later recalled. "I thought, What if I screw up? What if I fail?" Three months later though, he changed his mind and packed his bags fo -
Beginer
Jennongs Began Anchoring/ Reporting for ABC And its New york News Bureau. -
Rpelaced in America
ABC then plucked the boy and put him on Anchor for Peter Jennings with the news; Then he replaced Ron Cochran -
Foreign Correpondant
In 1968 Jennings statred ABC's Middle east Bureau -
First Story
jennings finally did his first ever news story, The Munchin Olympics Massacre of isreal athletics by black september. -
Yom Kippur War
he covered the Yom Kippur War, and the following year, he served as chief correspondent and co-producer of Sadat: Action Biography, a profile of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat that would win him his first of two George Foster Peabody Awards -
Back to America
Jennings returned to the U.S. at the end of 1974 to become Washington correspondent and news anchor for ABC's new morning program -
Disscussing the anchor
World News Tonight debuted with Frank Reynolds in Washington, Max Robinson in Chicago, and Jennings in London.[21] Jennings' official title was "Foreign Desk Anchor," although he continued to serve as the network's chief foreign correspondent -
And the winner of the anchor job is!!!
Wide World of Sports, had climbed in the ratings. The newscast had gained 1.9 million households from its debut, and was now in a dead heat with NBC's evening newscast.[ -
Marriage a third time around
In 1979, he married for the third time to fellow ABC correspondent Kati Marton. That same year, he became a father when Marton gave birth to their daughter, Elizabeth. -
Second child
Jennings' and Marton's second child, Christopher, was born. -
He's DEAD!!!
just after 11:30 pm EDT, Charles Gibson broke into local news in the Eastern US and regular programming on ABC's western affiliates to announce Jennings's death from lung cancer.[
