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Peter Jennings dead!

Postby Alcoholic on Mon Aug 08, 2005 1:53 pm

Edit: R.I.P.
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Postby Doobie on Mon Aug 08, 2005 1:55 pm

ummm , who is peter jennings?
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Postby Alcoholic on Mon Aug 08, 2005 2:05 pm

I'm feeling lucky

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http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=126542

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Peter Jennings is the anchor and senior editor of ABC's "World News Tonight" where he has established a reputation for independence and excellence in broadcast journalism. He is the network's principal anchor for breaking news, election coverage and special events.

As one of America's most distinguished journalists, Peter Jennings has reported many of the pivotal events that have shaped our world. He was in Berlin in the 1960s when the Berlin Wall was going up, and there in the '90s when it came down. He covered the civil rights movement in the southern United States during the 1960s, and the struggle for equality in South Africa during the 1970s and '80s. He was there when the Voting Rights Act was signed in 1965, and on the other side of the world when South Africans voted for the first time. He has worked in every European nation that once was behind the Iron Curtain. He was there when the independent political movement Solidarity was born in a Polish shipyard, and again when Poland's communist leaders were forced from power. And he was in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Romania and throughout the Soviet Union to record first the repression of communism and then its demise. He was one of the first reporters who went to Vietnam in the 1960s, and went back to the killing fields of Cambodia in the 1980s to remind Americans that, unless they did something, the terror would return.

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Postby BIG GREEN on Mon Aug 08, 2005 2:13 pm

am i missing something?..where does it say hes dead?

EDIT: hehe..i see it now
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Postby Jackal_ on Mon Aug 08, 2005 2:18 pm

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He didn't even look that old.. pretty shocking.

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Postby Rip32 on Mon Aug 08, 2005 2:59 pm

RIP
Wow just 2 months ago i was making jokes about him in American History. :oops:
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Postby Old School Fool on Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:00 pm

R.I.P.

Peter Jennings was that dude when it came to News Broadcasting (Except Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather).
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Postby Riot on Mon Aug 15, 2005 5:12 am

Sorry bring this topic back but it sucks he died. However, does anyone even watch the "normal channels" for news anymore? What I mean is, who watches NBC or ABC for news? Everyone watches Fox News or CNN.
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Postby Sac-1 on Mon Aug 15, 2005 5:58 am

R.I.P

was he from london,ontario
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Postby Keo on Mon Aug 15, 2005 6:24 am

I know he was from Canada, I'm not sure about London.
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Postby Sac-1 on Mon Aug 15, 2005 6:58 am

I heard them say he was from london on the news and they even showed him in london...it looked like london.... :?:
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Postby kevC on Mon Aug 15, 2005 9:49 am

He's both from London and Canada... there's a city named London in Ontario, Canada :lol:
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Postby The Other Kevin on Mon Aug 15, 2005 9:58 am

kevC wrote:He's both from London and Canada... there's a city named London in Ontario, Canada :lol:



Thats where Sac-1 is from and was talking about. :lol:
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Postby Jackal_ on Mon Aug 15, 2005 6:56 pm

I never knew he was Canadian until he passed away. :| I used to watch him on ABC sometimes.. shocking that he's dead.. didnt even look that old.
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