Jennings delivered news to the world for almost 6 decades.
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Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings was born on this day in 1938 to Charles and Elizabeth Jennings in Toronto, Canada.
He was one of the most prominent and exemplary journalists in the world despite dropping out of high school.
Jennings began his career at age 9 in 1947 as host for a Canadian radio show called Peter's People and anchored for the last time on April 1st, 2005.
Between those 58 years he explored life as an actor, co-anchored the late night national news in Canada, was the first Canadian journalist to cover the death of JFK, became the youngest U.S. American news anchor, became a Father to two children, built his incredible resume abroad and then became the sole anchor on ABC's World News Tonight for 22 years.
The 16-time Emmy winner was apart of the "Big Three" news anchors (Dan Rather of CBS and Tom Brokaw of NBC) who commanded network evening news from the 80's until the 2005.
Peter Jennings, unfortunately passed away from lung cancer on August 7th, 2005 at age 67 in Manhattan, New York.
Shortly after his passing, then New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg renamed the West 66th street in city as Peter Jennings Way and in 2011, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences posthumously inducted him into their Hall of Fame.
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