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In 2003, Peter Jennings became an American citizen, after nearly four decades of reporting for ABC. Once asked why, the Canadian- born Mr. Jennings admitted much of it had to do with September 11 - the day in which he spent more than 12 straight hours in the anchor chair, arriving shortly after the second plane hit the World Trade Center. For many reasons - habit, reassurance, loyalty - millions of Americans shared those hours with him. It was perhaps the only time in his 22 years at the helm of ABC "World News Tonight" when he understood what was happening not much better than his audience.
And yet September 11 was probably only the second biggest news story he ever reported - at least as it relates to the life of a single journalist. For someone whose own life was defined by the events of humanity, the biggest was his announcement on April 5 that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer, in effect reporting his own imminent death. He would never return to the anchor chair, and died Sunday at his home in New York at 67.See the full content of this document
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Peter Jennings, an American
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