Peter Jennings
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"Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings", Order of Canada/CM was a Canadian American journalist and news anchor. He was the sole anchor of ABC World News Tonight/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.

Jennings started his career early, hosting a Canadian radio show at the age of nine. He began his professional career with CJOH-TV in Ottawa during its early years, anchoring the local newscasts and hosting a teen dance show, Saturday Date, on Saturdays.

In 1965, ABC News tapped him to anchor its flagship evening news program. His inexperience was attacked by critics and others in television news, making for a difficult first stint in the anchor chair. Jennings became a foreign correspondent in 1968, reporting from the Middle East.

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There will be good days and bad, which means that some days I may be cranky and some days really cranky!

I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces.

I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.

The worse things got around me the cooler I tend to be, ... I tend to focus very hard under pressure.

Hundreds of you have been like family. It feels good to have such a family right now.

Seems like yesterday; seems like forever -- all at the same time.

There are a lot of people in this business who believe that part of our job is to reassure the public every night, ... I subscribe to leaving people with essentially a rough draft of history. Some days it is reassuring, some days it is absolutely destructive.

She has made almost no statement at all, kept his funeral strictly private, and keeps her own dignified council.

A man of conscience and integrity.