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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Sunday, August 07, 2005 - 8:56 pm
aww, that is so sad 
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Sunday, August 07, 2005 - 8:57 pm
As I said in the News thread, I am just shocked. I knew he had been diagnosed with cancer, but for some reason it's still shocking.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, August 07, 2005 - 8:59 pm
I was shocked to read it as well. It's a loss to the newscasting business.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, August 07, 2005 - 9:01 pm
aahhh that makes me sad, he was a great man
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Sunday, August 07, 2005 - 9:06 pm
link

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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Sunday, August 07, 2005 - 9:14 pm
Oh nooo...this saddens me as well. We've lost a great journalist, a great man.
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Sunday, August 07, 2005 - 9:15 pm
a great great loss - i have been loyal to abc essentially my whole life and Peter Jennings was one of the main reasons why - he was the anchor i always have turned to at 6:30 and though life will go on, it will not be quite the same without that charming man from Canada who you wanted to call your friend..
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Sunday, August 07, 2005 - 10:14 pm
i always thought he was the best, and am deeply saddened to hear he did not conquer lung cancer. so young. such a great journalist and man.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Sunday, August 07, 2005 - 10:37 pm
Oh man, this really saddens me. I feel like he was on my TV my whole life. Damn I'm sorry to hear this.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Monday, August 08, 2005 - 2:23 am
WOW! that was so fast! Such a great loss.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Monday, August 08, 2005 - 4:52 am
I was always wondering how Mr. Jennings was and thought it was telling that there have been no updates since he was diagnosed. Always took it as a bad sign, but perhaps he was just a very private man. Such a loss. No familiar faces on any of our major networks...
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Reiki
Member
08-12-2000
| Monday, August 08, 2005 - 5:23 am
Peter Jennings was my evening news anchor. He was the one I turned to when something important was happening in the news. He was a great reporter, a real journalist. Sadly, those are few and far between now. There are so many moments in our history that I witnessed through his eyes, but one that came immediately to mind this morning was watching the millennium celebrations from all over the world with him. His excitement and enthusiasm for bringing us the news will be missed.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Monday, August 08, 2005 - 6:16 am
He was such an elegant, well-balanced reporter. It WAS quick. And he was so young--died well before his time. Damn those cigarettes.
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Cablejockey
Member
12-27-2001
| Monday, August 08, 2005 - 9:04 am
So sad, I to thought that he would win his battle, and so am quite surprised to hear that he didnt. I'm also shocked that he quit smoking 20 years ago, yet still got lung cancer.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Monday, August 08, 2005 - 9:20 am
He admitted he started smoking again due to the stress of reporting on the day of 9-11.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Monday, August 08, 2005 - 9:22 am

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Cablejockey
Member
12-27-2001
| Monday, August 08, 2005 - 9:31 am
Oh...thanks Opiliasgrandma, I didnt know that. The report I heard had a small piece with him saying he quit 20 yrs ago---which made it all seem more tragic.
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Monday, August 08, 2005 - 10:12 am
Such sad news! And so young, what a loss. 
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Tess
Member
04-13-2001
| Monday, August 08, 2005 - 4:12 pm
He was far and away the best. No doubt about it. He will be sorely missed.
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Sue
Member
06-02-2005
| Monday, August 08, 2005 - 4:38 pm
I was very sad to hear of his death this morning. Such a terrible loss to soo many people.
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Jewels
Member
09-23-2000
| Monday, August 08, 2005 - 5:10 pm
Such sad news. He was a great reporter. He spent some time with our local ABC affiliate sometime last year and everytime he was on the air here locally, I loved listening to him and the stories he would tell. I love his voice and the way he spoke. He will be greatly missed. 
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Monday, August 08, 2005 - 7:25 pm
Larry king had a great hour on him tonight
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Tuesday, August 09, 2005 - 1:16 pm
So elegant and polite. He'll be missed.
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Cablejockey
Member
12-27-2001
| Thursday, August 11, 2005 - 11:06 am
Barbra Bel Geddes has died at the age of 82. She has been in many movies and tv roles, but for me she'll always be Miss Ellie from Dallas. link
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Thursday, August 11, 2005 - 2:26 pm
Just copying Peter Jennings' Obit for those interested: Peter Jennings, 67 (NY Times 08-08-2005) Peter Jennings, a high school dropout from Canada who transformed himself into one of the most urbane, well-traveled and recognizable journalists on American television, died yesterday at home. He was 67 and lived in Manhattan. Peter Jennings was the face of ABC News whenever a big story broke. More Photos > The cause was lung cancer, said Charles Gibson, who announced the death of his colleague on television in a special report just after 11:30 p.m. Mr. Jennings had disclosed that he was suffering from lung cancer on April 5, first in a written statement released by ABC and later that night on "World News Tonight," the evening news broadcast that he had led since September 1983. In brief remarks at the end of that night's program, Mr. Jennings, his voice scratchy, told viewers that he hoped to return to the anchor desk as his health and strength permitted. But he never did. It was a jarring departure for someone who for so long had been such a visible fixture in so many American homes each night. Along with the two other pillars of the so-called Big 3 - Tom Brokaw of NBC and Dan Rather of CBS - Mr. Jennings had, in the early 1980's, ushered in the era of the television news anchor as lavishly compensated, globe-trotting superstar. After Mr. Brokaw's departure from his anchor chair in December, followed by the retirement from the evening news of Mr. Rather in March, Mr. Jennings's death brings that era to a close. In addition to reporting from nearly every major world capital and war zone, Mr. Jennings also managed to report from all 50 states, according to the network. He seemed to draw on that collective experience - as well as his practiced ability to calmly describe events as they unfolded live - not long after two hijacked planes struck the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Over the course of that day, and those that immediately followed, he would spend more than 60 hours on the air in what Tom Shales of The Washington Post, among other critics, praised as a tour de force of interviewing and explanatory broadcast journalism laced with undisguised bewilderment. The coverage of all three broadcast networks that week underscored a maxim of the television news business: that however much the audience of the evening news programs might have eroded in recent years, viewers usually return during moments of crisis. "He established a level of trust with the viewer that would be difficult for anyone else to match going forward." At the peak of his broadcast's popularity, in the 1992-1993 television season, Mr. Jennings drew an average audience of nearly 14 million people each night, according to Nielsen Media Research. He reached that milestone midway through an eight-year ratings winning streak, during which his audience sometimes exceeded those of both Mr. Brokaw and Mr. Rather by two million or more viewers. (For nearly a decade since, to his periodic frustration, his broadcast had lagged behind that of NBC's, even after Mr. Brokaw yielded to Brian Williams in December.) Mr. Jennings's broadcast training had begun at an astonishingly young age, a function at least partly of his family background. Peter Charles Jennings was born July 29, 1938, in Toronto. His father, Charles, was a senior executive of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and a pioneer in Canadian radio news. In "The Century" (Doubleday, 1998), one of two history books that he co-wrote with Todd Brewster, Mr. Jennings recalled an early exercise that his father put him through to sharpen his powers of observation. "Describe the sky," his father had said. After the young boy had done so, his father dispatched him outside again. "Now, go out and slice it into pieces and describe each piece as different from the next." By age 9, he had his own show on Canadian radio, "Peter's Program." He dropped out of high school at 17, and by his early 20's, was the host of a dance show similar to "American Bandstand" called "Club Thirteen." His rise to the pinnacle of Canadian television news, and later its far larger counterpart to the south, was swift. In 1962, at age 24, he was named co-anchor of the national newscast on CTV, a competitor of his father's network, a job that he held until 1964. That year, he moved to the United States to begin work as a correspondent for ABC. Barely a year later, the network named him an anchor of "Peter Jennings With the News," then a 15-minute newscast, which put him, at age 26, head-to-head with Walter Cronkite on CBS and the formidable tandem of Chet Huntley and David Brinkley on NBC. Though he would serve ABC in that capacity for nearly three years, Mr. Jennings said in an interview last year that he was ill-suited for the job and unhappy in it. "I had the good sense to quit," he said. What followed was more than a decade of postings abroad as a foreign correspondent for ABC, during which, Mr. Jennings said last year, he got an on-the-job introduction to the world with a tuition bill effectively footed by his employer. From 1968 to 1978, Mr. Jennings traveled extensively, including to Vietnam, Munich (where he covered the hostage-taking and killings at the 1972 Summer Olympics) and Beirut (where he established the network's first news bureau in the Arab world). In 1978, he began his second tour as an anchor for the network, serving as one of three hosts of "World News Tonight," along with Frank Reynolds and Max Robinson, in a format devised by Roone Arledge, the sports programmer who had added the news division to his portfolio. Mr. Jennings was the program's foreign anchor and reported from London until 1983. Three weeks after Mr. Reynolds died following a battle with bone cancer, Mr. Jennings was named the sole anchor (and senior editor) of the broadcast, titles that Mr. Jennings continued to hold at his death. As an anchor, Mr. Jennings presented himself as a worldly alternative to Mr. Brokaw's plain-spoken Midwestern manner and Mr. Rather's folksy, if at times offbeat, Southern charm. He neither spoke like many of his viewers ("about" came out of his mouth as A-BOOT, a remnant of his Canadian roots) nor looked like them, with a matinee-idol face and crisply tailored wardrobe that were frequently likened in print to those of James Bond. Though his bearing could be stiff on the air (and his syntax sometimes criticized as being so simplistic as to border on patronizing), Mr. Jennings was immensely popular with his audience. Like all of the Big 3, Mr. Jennings was not without his detractors. Some critics contended he was too soft on the air when describing the Palestinian cause or the regime of the Cuban leader Fidel Castro - charges he disputed. Similarly, a July 2004 article in the National Review portrayed him as a thinly veiled opponent of the American war in Iraq. The article quoted Mr. Jennings as saying: "That is simply not the way I think of this role. This role is designed to question the behavior of government officials on behalf of the public." Mr. Jennings was conscious of having been imbued, during his Canadian boyhood, with a skepticism about American behavior; at least partly as a result, he often delighted in presenting the opinions of those in the minority, whatever the situation. And yet he simultaneously carried on an elaborate love affair with America, one that reached its apex in the summer of 2003, when he announced that he had become an American citizen, scoring, he said proudly, 100 percent on his citizenship test. Mr. Jennings's personal life was at times grist for the gossip pages, including his three divorces. His third wife, the author Kati Marton, whom he married in 1979 and divorced in 1993, is the mother of his two children, who survive him. They are a daughter, Elizabeth, and son, Christopher, both of New York City. He is also survived by his fourth wife, Kayce Freed, a former ABC television producer whom he married in December 1997, and a sister, Sarah Jennings of Ottawa, Canada. Having prided himself on rarely taking a sick day in nearly 40 years - and being dismissive, at times, of those well-paid colleagues who did - Mr. Jennings had missed the broadcast and the newsroom terribly in recent months.
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