Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings was a Canadian-American television journalist, best known for serving as the sole anchor of ABC World News Tonight from 1983 until his death from lung cancer in 2005. Despite dropping out of high school, Jennings transformed himself into one of American television's most prominent journalists.
Jennings in 2002
A 1968 press photo of Jennings
Jennings (in center in blue shirt) while in San Francisco in 1984
Jennings playing center fielder at a recreational softball game in San Francisco during the 1984 Democratic National Convention
ABC World News Tonight is the flagship daily evening television news program of ABC News, the news division of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) television network in the United States. It is currently the most watched network newscast in the United States, with an average of 2 million more than its nearest rival, NBC Nightly News. Since 2014, the program's weekday broadcasts have been anchored by David Muir. As of February 6–7, 2021, Whit Johnson and Linsey Davis anchor the Saturday and Sunday editions of the newscast respectively.
Charles Gibson anchored World News Tonight, later World News, from 2006 to 2009.
President Barack Obama with Gibson in the East Room of the White House during ABC News's Prescription for America "town-hall"-style conversation on health care, June 24, 2009.
Diane Sawyer was the anchor of World News from 2009 to 2014.
Advertisement for World News (left) outside of Times Square Studios in 2010
