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Pat: "I don't know you! Go away! Go away!"Suspiria
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 Born July 29, 1938 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Died August 7, 2005 in Bridgehampton, New York from Lung Cancer.
Jennings started out at the age of 17 working for the CBC in Canada. He became that country's youngest news anchor and in 1964, came to the United States where he joined ABC News. From 1965 to 1968, Jennings anchored ABC's Evening News. After he left the newsdesk, Jennings became one of the network's most well known foreign correspondents, even helping with ABC's coverage of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. In 1978, Jennings was recruited by Roone Arledge to co-anchor ABC's new "World News Tonight" with Frank Reynolds and Max Robinson. Jennings became permanent sole anchor in 1983, following the death of Reynolds, and relocated permanently to the U.S. shortly thereafter.
Jennings anchored his last full broadcast of WNT on April 1, 2005, and on April 5, ABC announced that Jennings had been diagnosed with lung cancer, having smoked until the 1980s, and restarted around the times of the 2001 Terrorist Attacks on America. Jennings made his last appearance on WNT that evening in a pre-taped message to viewers about his diagnosis, and died on August 7th. ABC dedicated all of its news programs the following day to Jennings, and removed his name from the title of World News Tonight on August 12th.
The street outside ABC News headquarters on West 66th Street in New York was named Peter Jennings Way in February 2006 in his memory.
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