Open. [2] During this time, he explored acting by appearing in several amateur musical productions with the Orpheus Musical Theatre Society, including Damn Yankees and South Pacific. [31] It was World News Tonight, however, that ended the year at the top; ABC's evening newscast spent the last 13 weeks of the year in first place, and its average ratings for the entire year beat CBS for the first time. [15], In 1972, Jennings covered his first major breaking news story, the Munich Olympics massacre of Israeli athletes by Black September. [10], Jennings attempted to build his journalism credentials abroad. [115] The Simpson trial was the number-one news story for NBC and CBS in 1995, while at ABC, coverage of the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina dominated the newscast. . I know we don't know where he is, but pretty soon the country needs to know where he is. February 13, 2017. "I went in the front door and came out the front door. I know you mentioned it but you could have pushed the fact that the economy in Northern Ireland is jumping. "Can you imagine I, who just finished a whole series on America and had been an anchorperson for an American broadcastcould you imagine if I had failed?" [11] While stationed in the Lebanese capital, Jennings dated Palestinian activist Hanan Ashrawi, who was then a graduate student in literature at the American University in Beirut. Worried, Jennings and ABC decided to cut back on international reporting and give more air time to "soft stories", in an effort to emulate the success of Nightly News. [103], Jennings won numerous honors throughout his career, including 16 Emmys and two George Foster Peabody Awards. In 1959, CFJR, a local radio station, hired him as a member of its news department; many of his stories were picked up by the CBC. In 1973, 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. "As some of you now know, I have learned in the last couple of days that I have lung cancer," he said. [49], In his original on-air reporting of the incident on March 26, 2003, for Dateline NBC, Williams had said only that "the Chinook ahead of us was almost blown out of the sky by an RPG" and made an emergency landing. Williams appeared on Sesame Street again in a 2008 episode, reporting for Sesame Street Nightly News about the "mine-itis" outbreak, becoming a victim. The joy, struggle in Laurie Jennings' personal life - WPLG Aug. 7, 2005 -- ABC News Anchor Peter Jennings died today at his home in New York City. [88], On August 7, 2005, less than a month after Jennings's 67th birthday, just after 11:30pm EDT, Charles Gibson broke into local news in the eastern U.S. and regular programming on ABC's western affiliates to announce Jennings's death from lung cancer. [56], Despite these critical successes, in 1996, World News Tonight started gradually slipping in the ratings race.
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