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Anouchka MaloufMarried 1973
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Valerie GodsoeMarried
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Michael Rosenblum: That's Entertainment... Or Is It News? Or Does It Even Matter?Huffington Post - Jun 05, 2013
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Steve Mariotti: Nfte's Teacher Training The Key To The Replication Of Entrepreneurial Education, Part 2: Raising The MoneyHuffington Post - Feb 22, 2013
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Suspected Killer Addresses Anderson Cooper, Other News HostsHuffington Post - Feb 08, 2013
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Consider The Source Peter Jennings Would Have Loved It. (David Westin/The Huffington Post)Mediagazer - Jan 05, 2013
Timeline
Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Peter Jennings.
CHILDHOOD
1938
Birth
Jennings was born on July 29, 1938, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; he and his younger sister Sarah were children of Elizabeth (Osborne) and Charles Jennings, a prominent radio broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
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TWENTIES
1959
20 Years Old
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In 1959, CFJR, a local radio station, hired him as a member of its news department; many of his stories, including his coverage of a local train wreck, were picked up by the CBC.
By 1961, Jennings had joined the staff of CJOH-TV, then a new television station in Ottawa.
1964
25 Years Old
In 1964, CTV sent Jennings to cover the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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1965
26 Years Old
On February 1, 1965, ABC plucked the fresh-faced Canadian from the field and placed him at the anchor desk of Peter Jennings With the News, then a 15-minute nightly newscast.
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THIRTIES
1974
35 Years Old
Jennings returned to the U.S. at the end of 1974 to become Washington correspondent and news anchor for ABC's new morning program AM America, a predecessor to Good Morning America.
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AM America debuted on January 6, 1975, with Jennings delivering regular newscasts from Washington.
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He continued to cover the Middle East, and in 1978 he was the first American reporter to interview the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran, then in exile in Paris.
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FORTIES
1979
40 Years Old
Jennings also found renewed success in his personal life. In 1979, he married for the third time to fellow ABC correspondent Kati Marton.
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In 1982, Jennings' and Marton's second child, Christopher, was born.
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In 1983, Reynolds fell ill with multiple myeloma, a type of leukemia/lymphoma that often attacks the bones, and was forced to stop anchoring in April.
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He spent his first year at the anchor desk educating himself on American domestic affairs in preparation for the 1984 presidential campaign season.
FIFTIES
Jennings continued to produce special programs aimed at young viewers, anchoring Growing Up in the Age of AIDS, a frank, 90-minute-long discussion on AIDS in February 1992, and Prejudice: Answering Children's Questions, a forum on racism in April 1992.
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1993
54 Years Old
On August 13, 1993, Jennings and Kati Marton publicly announced their separation in Newsday.
In January 1994, he locked horns with his executive producer on World News Tonight, Emily Rooney.
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ABC increased its coverage of religious topics, and in March 1995, he anchored Peter Jennings Reporting: In the Name of God, a well-received documentary on the changing nature of American churches.
LATE ADULTHOOD
On March 29, 1999, Jennings anchored the first installment of ABC's 12-hour miniseries, The Century; production on the monumental project started in 1990, and by the time it aired, it had cost the network $25 million.
With another presidential election taking place in 2000, Jennings had some more political reporting duties that year.
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In the summer of 2002, Jennings and ABC refused to allow Toby Keith to open their coverage of July 4 celebrations with "Courtesy of the Red, White, & Blue", prompting criticism from Keith and country music fans, who highlighted the anchor's Canadian citizenship. The events of September 11 added new meaning to In Search of America, the project Jennings and Brewster started after the success of their previous collaboration. The two began writing the book in early 2001; after the terrorist attacks, they revisited many of the people they had interviewed to see how the events had affected them.
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2003
64 Years Old
His work on In Search of America and the September 11 attacks contributed to his decision in 2003 to become a dual citizen of Canada and the United States. "I think that 9/11 and the subsequent travel I did in the country afterwards made me feel connected in new ways," he said. "And when we were working on the America project I spent a lot of time on the road, which meant away from my editor's desk, and I just got much more connected to the Founding Fathers' dreams and ideas for the future."
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By late 2004, Brokaw had retired from his anchoring duties at NBC, ceding the reins to Brian Williams; Rather planned to step down in March 2005.
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On April 1, 2005, he anchored World News Tonight for the last time; his poor health also prevented him from covering the death and funeral of Pope John Paul II.
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