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<html> <head> <title>Peter Jennings</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css"> <!-- .fotmbar { color: #FFFFFF; text-decoration: none} .fotmbar:hover { color: #FFFFFF; text-decoration: underline} .newslink { color: #000000; text-decoration: none} .newslink:hover { color: #000000; text-decoration: none} .proflink { color: #000000; text-decoration: none} .proflink:hover { color: blue; text-decoration: underline} .b1f, .b2f, .b3f, .b4f {font-size:1px; overflow:hidden; display:block;} .b1f {height:1px; background:#e6e6e6; margin:0 5px;} .b2f {height:1px; background:#e6e6e6; margin:0 3px;} .b3f {height:1px; background:#e6e6e6; margin:0 2px;} .b4f {height:2px; background:#e6e6e6; margin:0 1px;} .contentf {background: #e6e6e6; padding: 2px; } .contentf div {margin-left: 5px;} --> </style></head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This is a beta version of NNDB</font></b></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> <nobr>Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </font></b></nobr></form></td> </tr> </table> <!-- COPYRIGHT (C) 2008 SOYLENT COMMUNICATIONS --> <!-- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED --> <!-- NO PART OF THIS WEBSITE MAY BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION --> <!-- OF SOYLENT COMMUNICATIONS (ON THE WEB, IN PRINT, OR OTHERWISE) --> <!-- --> <!-- SOYLENT COMMUNICATIONS --> <!-- PO BOX 4436, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94040 USA --> </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr><map name=fool><area coords="102,0,240,14" href="/people/310/000022244/bibliography/" alt="bibliography"></map><tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 0px 15px 15px 15px;"><img src="/red-profile-2.gif" align="right" height=15 width=240 border=0 usemap=#fool><br clear="all"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0><font size=+3 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Peter Jennings</b></font><p><img src="jennings.gif" height=238 width=200 align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 alt="Peter Jennings"><b>AKA</b> Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings<p><b>Born:</b> <a href="/lists/728/000106410/" class=proflink>29-Jul</a>-<a href="/lists/937/000105622/" class=proflink>1938</a><br><b>Birthplace:</b> <a href="/geo/830/000069623/" class=proflink>Toronto, Ontario, Canada</a><br><b>Died:</b> <a href="/lists/106/000106785/" class=proflink>7-Aug</a>-<a href="/lists/515/000106197/" class=proflink>2005</a><br><b>Location of death:</b> <a href="/geo/592/000069385/" class=proflink>Manhattan, NY</a><br><b>Cause of death:</b> <a href="/lists/357/000069150/" class=proflink>Cancer - Lung</a><br><b>Remains:</b> Cremated (ashes scattered at his farm, Quebec, Canada)<br><p><b>Gender:</b> Male<br><b>Race or Ethnicity:</b> White<br><b>Sexual orientation:</b> Straight<br><b>Occupation:</b> <a href="/lists/180/000068973/" class=proflink>Journalist</a><p><b>Nationality:</b> Canada<br><b>Executive summary:</b> Former anchor, <i>ABC World News Tonight</i><p>At age nine, Peter Jennings was the anchorboy of <I>Peter's People</i>, a Saturday morning newscast for children on Canadian radio. He got the job because his father, Charles Jennings, was the network's leading newsman, still remembered as Canada's answer to <a href="/people/917/000023848/">Edward R. Murrow</a>. Young Jennings later dropped out of high school (a mistake of much regret), then worked as a bank teller for several years, before starting as a disc-jockey and newsman for an Ontario radio station. His coverage of a train wreck caught executives' attention at CTV, then Canada's only commercial television network. They hired Jennings, and he eventually was named to co-anchor CTV's first nightly newscast. ABC executives saw him and offered him a position at their network, then in last place.<P> After several years reporting for ABC, Jennings anchored the network's nightly newscast from 1965-68, when he was deemed gravitas-challenged against his much older rivals, <a href="/people/313/000022247/">Walter Cronkite</a> on CBS and <a href="/people/132/000056961/">Huntley</a>-<a href="/people/244/000055079/">Brinkley</a> on NBC. Jennings returned to reporting, and garnered good notices for his work in the Middle East. Opening a bureau in Lebanon, the first such in the entire Arab world, brought unjust criticism that he was "anti-Israeli". Jennings snagged the first interview with Iran's <a href="/people/915/000031822/">Ayatollah Khomeini</a>, and accompanied the Imam on his triumphant return to Tehran after the <a href="/people/348/000059171/">Shah of Iran</a> fled the country. In 1978, ABC tried having three men share anchor duties, and Jennings was sandwiched between <a href="/people/533/000049386/">Max Robinson</a> and <a href="/people/311/000022245/">Frank Reynolds</a>. When Reynolds died of cancer in 1983, Jennings again became sole anchor.<P> He became an American citizen in May 2003, retaining also his Canadian citizenship. Cynics have suggested it was a shrewd move to counter criticism from American conservatives of his "liberal, Canadian" reporting. ABC received thousands of complaints after <a href="/people/128/000093846/">Toby Keith</a>'s in-your-face patriotic song "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue" was nixed from Jennings-anchored Independence Day coverage in 2002. Keith complained loudly that an American like <a href="/people/307/000022241/">Dan Rather</a> would've let him sing, and many people were offended enough to send Jennings "bus fare home to Canada." But Jennings says the citizenship switch was brought on by the terrorist attacks of <a href="http://www.rotten.com/library/crime/terrorism/september_11/">September 11</a> -- in the aftermath, he decided he was an American at heart.<p> In March 2005 Jennings was diagnosed with lung cancer, almost certainly resulting from a heavy smoking habit which he ceased in the 1980s. After the September 11 attacks he resumed smoking. His death in August 2005, along with the recent retirements of anchors <a href="/people/309/000022243/">Tom Brokaw</a> and <a href="/people/307/000022241/">Dan Rather</a>, effectively ended an era of broadcast news. <p><b>Father:</b> Charles Jennings (CBC radio newscaster)<br><b>Mother:</b> Elizabeth Jennings (d. 1992)<br><b>Sister:</b> Sarah Jennings<br><b>Wife:</b> Valerie Godsoe (div.)<br><b>Wife:</b> Anouchka Malouf ("Annie", div.)<br><b>Wife:</b> Kati Marton (m. 1979, div. 1993, one daughter, one son)<br><b>Daughter:</b> Elizabeth (b. 1980)<br><b>Son:</b> Christopher (b. 1982)<br><b>Wife:</b> Kayce Freed (m. 6-Dec-1997)<br><b>Girlfriend:</b> <a href="/people/526/000022460/">Barbra Streisand</a> (1990s, reportedly)<br><b>Girlfriend:</b> Hanan Ashrawi (1970s)<br><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; High School: Trinity College School, Port Hope, Ontario, Canada (dropped out)<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; University: <a href="/edu/642/000068438/">Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada</a><br>&nbsp; &nbsp; University: <a href="/edu/226/000110893/">Rider College, Trenton, NJ</a><br><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="/org/514/000042388/">Bilderberg Group</a> <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="/event/582/000051429/">Naturalized US Citizen</a> 30-May-2003<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="/honors/883/000161400/">Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame</a> <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="/honors/534/000044402/">Emmy</a> 14<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="/honors/860/000044728/">Peabody</a> 2<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="/honors/621/000072405/">Polk Award</a> 1990<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="/group/650/000207029/">Wedding: George Stephanopoulos and Alexandra Wentworth (2001)</a> <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Risk Factors: <a href="/lists/862/000128478/">Former Smoker</a>, <a href="/lists/790/000180250/">Lung Cancer</a><br> <p> &nbsp; &nbsp; <font size=-2 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">TELEVISION</font><br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="/tv/532/000049385/">World News Tonight</a> Anchor 1978-2005<br><p> &nbsp; &nbsp; <font size=-2 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR</font><br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="/films/199/000274374/">An Unlikely Weapon (18-Feb-2008)</a> &middot; Himself<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="/films/502/000089235/">The Last Party (27-Aug-1993)</a> &middot; Himself<br><p> <br> <p> <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: italic; color: #ff3333;">New!</span><br> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=22244"><img src="/man.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=22244">Peter Jennings</a></td> </tr> </table> <font face="Trebuchet MS, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</font> <br><br><p> <font size=-1>Do you know something we don't?</font><br> <font size=-1><a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=22244" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a></font><br> <p> <br><br><p><font size=-1>Copyright &copy;2019 Soylent Communications</font><p> </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"></td></tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>

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