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It was unsettling enough that ABC anchorman Peter Jennings died of lung cancer just four months after announcing his diagnosis. Perhaps more distressing to the 90 million--plus smokers and former smokers out there was that Jennings swore off tobacco 20 years ago and was struck by the disease all...
Judging by the outpouring of grief for Jennings, it's clear that he had long since won that respect. He worked his way from conflict to conflict, country to country, rising to Chief Foreign Correspondent at ABC before eventually retaking the job of fulltime anchor of World News Tonight in...
Jennings' soothing on-air presence and personal grace belied a fierce competitiveness and courage that NBC's Brian Williams, who took over Brokaw's spot last year, says makes news of his death harder to believe. Williams recalls sitting last year with a nonchalant Jennings on an airstrip at Baghdad...
It's perhaps fitting that the media luminaries of his adopted country would lament the Canadian-born Jennings' passing; Cokie Roberts, his ABC colleague for almost twenty years, recalls that it wasn't unusual for Jennings to get misty-eyed when discussing the virtues of the U.S. Constitution. He bragged...
Still, says Rather, it was Jennings' hard-earned perspective as a foreign correspondent that defined him most. "Peter was a master at telling a story, reporting in such a way that it told people back home why some of these datelines in faraway places with strange sounding names were important...