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Peter Jennings was born on July 19th 1938 in Ontario Canada
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Peter Jennings was born on July 19 1938 and died on August 7th 2005
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In 1959 jennings was hired at CFJR, a local radio station as a member of the news department.
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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
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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
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Jennongs Began Anchoring/ Reporting for ABC And its New york News Bureau.
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ABC then plucked the boy and put him on Anchor for Peter Jennings with the news; Then he replaced Ron Cochran
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In 1968 Jennings statred ABC's Middle east Bureau
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jennings finally did his first ever news story, The Munchin Olympics Massacre of isreal athletics by black september.
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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
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Jennings returned to the U.S. at the end of 1974 to become Washington correspondent and news anchor for ABC's new morning program
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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
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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.[
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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.
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Jennings' and Marton's second child, Christopher, was born.
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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.[
