Peter Jennings has died

[Fearless]

ABC anchor Peter Jennings dies<br><br>The Associated Press<br><br>August 7, 2005, 11:51 PM EDT<br><br>Peter Jennings, the suave, Canadian-born broadcaster who delivered the news to Americans each night in five separate decades, died Sunday. He was 67. <br>Jennings, who announced in April that he had lung cancer, died at his New York home, ABC News President David Westin said.<br><br> "Peter has been our colleague, our friend, and our leader in so many ways. None of us will be the same without him," Westin said. <br><br>With Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather, Jennings was part of a triumvirate that dominated network news for more than two decades, through the birth of cable news and the Internet. His smooth delivery and years of international reporting experience made Jennings particularly popular among urban dwellers.<br><br>Jennings was the face of ABC News whenever a big story broke. He logged more than 60 hours on the air during the week of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, offering a soothing sense of continuity during a troubled time. <br><br>"There are a lot of people who think our job is to reassure the public every night that their home, their community and their nation is safe," he told author Jeff Alan. "I don't subscribe to that at all. I subscribe to leaving people with essentially -- sorry it's a cliche -- a rough draft of history. Some days it's reassuring, some days it's absolutely destructive."<br><br>Jennings' announcement four months ago that the longtime would begin treatment for lung cancer came as a shock.<br><br>"I will continue to do the broadcast," he said, his voice husky, in a taped message that night. "On good days, my voice will not always be like this."<br><br>But although Jennings occasionally came to the office, he never again appeared on the air. <br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.newsday.com/ny-jennings08,0,2348288.story?coll=ny-top-headlines">www.newsday.com/ny-jennings08,0,2348288.story?coll=ny-top-headlines</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[dbeach]

R.I.P. we need all the pals we can get..<br><br>thought he was OK until I woke up and realized the MM is the propaganda arm of the police state.. <p></p><i></i>

[FourthBase]

One of the many future MM mouthpieces in Dallas on 11/22/63. <p></p><i></i>

[dbeach]

I thought he was there ..so he helped kill the PRESIDENT..<br><br>The ghosts of the KENNEDY clan are beginning to stir..I have paryed for this for yrs..the criminals are being exposed<br><br>GHW Bush and the cabals killed JFK in a Nazi coup.. joined with the commies and the neo-cons and have done coup after coup to maintainn their power and continue the cover-up<br><br>Time for Jacks killers to be brought to justice..the reign of the british influence and their evil is crumbling.. <p></p><i></i>

[FourthBase]

Ummm, sure, whatever...<br><br>Jennings, Rather, Moyers, MacNeil, Schneider...<br>They were there covering the story, except Moyers was press secretary.<br><br>Just worth a mention, IMO.<br><br>BTW, I'm quitting smoking tomorrow. <p></p><i></i>