Peter Jennings

Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings, CM (July 29, 1938 – August 7, 2005) was the lead news anchor for the ABC network from the 1980s to the 2000s. He had anchored ABC World News Tonight since 1978 and was the sole anchor from 1983 through April 2005. Jennings died of lung cancer on the evening of August 7 2005 at the age of 67.

Trivia

• Jennings was the youngest anchor ever of an American prime time network news program, at 26.
• Jennings was parodied in '.
• In 1999, he anchored the 12-hour ABC series, The Century, and ABC's series for the History Channel, America's Time.
• Jennings once relayed a report from memory after a correspondent's taped report broke during broadcast.
• Jennings was the only American News Media reporter to broadcast from Montreal during the 1995 Quebec Referendum (which ended in a "No" vote).
• Jennings was a certificated private pilot.
• Jennings logged 25 hours on air for the millennial new year, December 31, 1999 ? January 1, 2000.
• Jennings logged more than 60 hours on the air during the week of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, including 16 hours straight on the 11th.
• Jennings visited the stadium of the Portland Sea Dogs minor league baseball team in 1996. He stayed there for a week and took batting practice several times with the Sea Dogs, wearing a full Sea Dogs uniform. http://club.minorleaguebaseball.com/app/news/article.jsp?ymd=20050808&content_id=20210&vkey=news_milb&fext=.jsp
• Jennings was the last to die of the original American network Evening News anchors (because of ABC's late start).
• Jennings left an estate of over fifty million dollars the bulk of which went to his wife and children.