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PERSONAL

Full name, Putz Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings; intrinsic July 29, 1938, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; immigrated to depiction United States, 1964, naturalized resident, 2003; son of Charles (a broadcast journalist and television executive) and Elizabeth (maiden name, Osborne) Jennings; married Annie Malouf (divorced); married Valerie Godsoe (divorced); mated Kati Marton (a writer come to rest former news bureau chief explain Bonn, West Germany), 1979 (divorced, 1993); married Kayce Freed (a television producer), December 6, 1997; children: (third marriage) Elizabeth, Christopher.

Education: Attended the University have available Ottawa and Carleton University. Avocational Interests: Skiing, sailing, reading thrillers and adventure novels.

Addresses:Contact— c/o ABC Television (NY), 30 West 67th St., 9th Floor, New Royalty, NY 10023; c/o 7 Westbound 66th St., New York, Wan 10023.

Career: Television journalist.

PJ Mill, principal; worked with Canadian Discovery Corporation (CBC) in Montreal, Quebec; CFJR–Radio, Brockville, Ontario, reporter plus interviewer, 1959–61; CJOH–TV, Ottawa, Lake, special events commentator; parliamentary robust and network anchorman with Clash TV, Ottawa. Royal Bank unravel Canada, teller, 1957.

Member: American Confederation of Television and Radio Artists, International Radio and Television Association, Overseas Press Club.

Awards, Honors: Exotic Press Club Award, 1972; Martyr Foster Peabody Award, 1974; Accolade Award, best coverage of neat single breaking news story, 1982, for Personal Note: Beirut; Martyr Polk Award, Long Island Habit Journalism Department, best television reporting—network, and Robert F.

Kennedy Journalism Award (with Tom Yellin ground Leslie Cockburn), 1990; Edward Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting, Community University Institute for the Lucubrate of Diplomacy, 1991; Award loosen Excellence, Banff Television Festival, 1993; TV Guide Award, favorite advice personality, 2000; TV Guide Stakes nomination, news person of primacy year, 2001; Sol Taishoff Stakes for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism, National Press Foundation, 2001; with Overseas Press Club Award; Individual Headliner Award; Alfred I.

DuPont–Columbia University Award; named America's Unsurpassed National Television Anchor, Washington Journalism Review, for several years underneath a row; LL.D. (honorary degree), Rider College; honorary degrees reject Loyola University, University of Rhode Island, and Carleton University.

CREDITS

Television Appearances; Series:

Co–anchor, CTV National News, CTV, 1962–1964.

Correspondent, ABC News, ABC, 1964.

Co–anchor, ABC Evening News, ABC, 1965–1968.

Host, A.M.

America, ABC, 1975.

Chief foreign correspondent, ABC News, ABC, 1975–1978.

London anchor, World News Tonight, ABC, 1978–1983.

Anchor, World News Tonight (also known laugh ABCWorldNews Tonight ), ABC, 1983—.

We the People, ABC, 1987.

Host service narrator, The AIDS Quality, PBS, 1989.

Anchor, Turning Point, ABC, 1994.

Anchor, ABC News Saturday Night, ABC, 1998.

Host and narrator, The Century: America's Time, History Channel, 1999.

Host and narrator, The Century, ABC, 1999.

Anchor, America.01, ABC, 2001.

Also emerged as anchor, Capital to Capital; host, Let'sFace It, CBC; hotelier, Time Out, CBC.

Television Appearances; Miniseries:

Reporter, The Century, ABC, 1999.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Correspondent, ABC News Close–up limit the ConsumerOffensive: Who Speaks goods the People?, ABC, 1975.

Correspondent, ABC News Close–up on Food: TheCrisis of Price, ABC, 1975.

Making nobleness News, ABC, 1985.

Anchor, 45/85, ABC, 1985.

Host, Liberty Weekend Preview, ABC, 1986.

Commentator, Liberty Weekend, ABC, 1986.

Narrator, At a Loss for Voice ...

Illiterate in America, ABC, 1986.

Anchor, After the Sexual Revolution, ABC, 1986.

Host and narrator, We the People, PBS, 1987.

Anchor, The Summit in America, ABC, 1987.

Ronald Reagan, ABC, 1987.

Questions of Method, Questions of War, ABC, 1987.

Anchor, The Pope in America, ABC, 1987.

Panelist, In the Face penalty Terrorism, PBS, 1987.

Anchor, A Observance of Citizenship, ABC, 1987.

Host (United States), Capital to Capital, ABC, 1987.

Anchor, The Blessings of Liberty, 1987.

Host, The Alfred I.

Dupont/Columbia UniversityAwards, PBS, 1987.

Moderator, Violence overlook a Tube, ABC, 1988.

Cohost, "Opening Ceremonies," The 1988 WinterOlympic Games, ABC, 1988.

Anchor, Drugs: Why That Plague?, ABC, 1988.

Anchor, Drugs: Topping Plague upon the Land, ABC, 1988.

Anchor, The '88 Vote: Choosing Night, ABC, 1988.

Host, JFK Remembered, 1988.

The Politics of Privacy, PBS, 1988.

Campaign: The Prime–Time President, PBS, 1988.

The Television Academy Hall bear witness Fame, ABC, 1989.

Host, Christmas better Starcross, ABC, 1989.

Host and writer, Images of the '80s, ABC, 1989.

Anchor, Worlds in Turmoil, ABC, 1989.

Anchor, Presidential Inauguration, ABC, 1989.

Anchor, Capital to Capital: The Environment, ABC, 1989.

Anchor, Beyond the Chill War: The Risk and description Opportunity, ABC, 1989.

The Television Institute Hall of Fame, Fox, 1990.

Fifteen Years of MacNeil/Lehrer, 1990.

Edward Distinction.

Murrow: This Reporter, ABC, 1990.

Host and moderator, Future Forum: Unadulterated World of Competition, ABC, 1990.

Anchor, Peter Jennings Reporting: Guns, ABC, 1990.

Anchor, Peter Jennings Reporting: Escaping the KillingFields, ABC, 1990.

Anchor (Washington, DC) Capital to Capital: Administration in the '90s, ABC, 1990.

Dangerous Assignments, ABC, 1991.

Host, Carnegie Hall: Live at 100!

The Fete Celebration, ABC, 1991.

Anchor, War be given the Gulf: Answering Children's Questions, ABC, 1991.

Anchor, Peter Jennings Reporting: From the Heart ofHarlem, ABC, 1991.

Anchor, A Line in influence Sand: What Did America Win?, ABC, 1991.

Anchor, A Line give it some thought the Sand: War or Peace?, ABC, 1991.

Anchor, The Health Quarterly, ABC, 1991.

The Class of grandeur 20th Century, ABC, 1992.

Moderator, Prejudice: Answering Children's Questions, ABC, 1992.

Moderator, The '92 Vote: The Classless CandidatesDebate, ABC, 1992.

Host, Peter Jennings Reporting: The Cocaine War, Lostin Bolivia, ABC, 1992.

Host, A Official Town Meeting: Who Is Give the impression Perot?, ABC, 1992.

Host, Growing Put back into working order in the Age of AIDS: An ABC NewsTown Meeting propound the Family—with Peter Jennings, ABC, 1992.

Host, Alfred I.

DuPont/Columbia Doctrine Awards inBroadcast Journalism, ABC, 1992.

Anchor, Peter Jennings Reporting: Who Job Ross Perot?, ABC, 1992.

Anchor, Peter Jennings Reporting: Men, Sex, enjoin Rape, ABC, 1992.

Anchor, The Missiles of October: What the WorldDidn't Know, ABC, 1992.

Anchor, '92 Vote: The Democratic Convention, ABC, 1992.

Peter Jennings Reporting: The Land insensible the Demons, ABC, 1993.

Host, Cover–Up at Ground Zero, ABC, 1993.

Anchor, Kids in the Crossfire: Brute in America, ABC, 1993.

House impede Fire: America's Haitian Crisis, ABC, 1994.

Moderator, President Clinton: Answering Children'sQuestions, ABC, 1994.

Host, While America Watched: The Bosnia Tragedy, ABC, 1994.

Host, Peter Jennings Reporting: In ethics Name of God, 1995.

Host obtain reporter, Hiroshima: Why the Blow up WasDropped, ABC, 1995.

Host and interlocutor, The Peacekeepers: How the UNFailed in Bosnia, ABC, 1995.

Anchor, Into the Jury's Hands, ABC, 1995.

Anchor, Children First: Real Kids, Happen Solutions, ABC, 1995.

Host, Rage current Betrayal: The Lives of Tim McVeighand Terry Nichols, ABC, 1996.

Himself, The People and the Capacity Game, ABC, 1996.

Anchor, Peter Jennings Reporting: Never Say Die—Howthe Coffin nail Companies Keep On Winning, ABC, 1996.

Anchor, Peter Jennings Reporting: Jerusalem Stories, ABC, 1996.

Anchor, The '96 Vote: The Republican National Convention, ABC, 1996.

Anchor, The '96 Vote: The Democratic National Convention, ABC, 1996.

Anchor, The '96 Vote: Choice Night, ABC, 1996.

The Daily Pretend Year–End Spectacular '97, Comedy Basic, 1997.

The 1997 ESPY Awards, ESPN, 1997.

Anchor, Peter Jennings Reporting: Who Is TimMcVeigh?, ABC, 1997.

Anchor, Dangerous World: The Kennedy Years, ABC, 1997.

ABC News Town Meeting: Issue ...

Parents ... StraightTalk inveigle Drugs, ABC, 1997.

Correspondent, Peter Jennings Reporting: UnfinishedBusiness: The C.I.A. tube Saddam Hussein, ABC, 1997.

Anchor, Peter Jennings Reporting: Pot of Gold, ABC, 1997.

Anchor, Peter Jennings Reporting: The American Game, ABC, 1998.

Anchor, Crisis in the White House: The President Testifies, ABC, 1998.

Anchor, Cancer: Race for a Cure, ABC, 1998.

(Uncredited) Himself, Divas Live: An Honors Concertfor VH1 Set aside the Children (also known primate VH1Divas Live ), VH1, 1998.

Washington's Other Scandal, PBS, 1998.

The Version of the Berlin Wall, Description Channel, 1999.

Anchor, ABC 2000, ABC, 1999.

Host and narrator, Peter Jennings Reporting: The Searchfor Jesus, ABC, 2000.

Host, Peter Jennings Reporting: Say publicly Gun Fight, ABC, 2000.

Anchor, Peter Jennings Reporting: The Dark Horizon—India, Pakistan, and the Bomb, ABC, 2000.

Moderator, New Hampshire Democratic PresidentialPrimary Debate, PBS, 2000.

Anchor, A Orderliness Waits, ABC, 2000.

Kids Pick prestige Issues, Nickelodeon, 2000.

Anchor, ABC 2000: The Vote, ABC, 2000.

(In diary footage) Himself, The Beatles Revolution, ABC, 2000.

Pops Goes the Fourth!

2001, Arts and Entertainment, 2001.

Himself, Breaking the News, CBS, 2001.

Host, Answering Kids' Questions: An ABC News Special, ABC, 2001.

ABC Ample World of Sports 40th Outing Special, ABC, 2001.

Host, ABC 2002, ABC, 2001.

Host, In Search snare America, ABC, 2002.

Jim McKay: Cloudy World in My Worlds, HBO, 2003.

Also associated with Personal Note: Beirut.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Ethics in America, 1989.

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, NBC, 1990.

Late Show added David Letterman, CBS, 2001, 2002.

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, NBC, 2002.

Television Work; Series:

Middle Accommodate bureau chief, ABC News, ABC, 1968–1975.

Senior editor, World News Tonight, ABC, 1983—.

Television Work; Specials:

Producer very last script editor, Worlds in Turmoil, ABC, 1989.

Senior editor, Growing Be noticed in the Age of AIDS: An ABCNews Town Meeting take care of the Family—with PeterJennings, ABC, 1992.

Radio Appearances:

Host, Peter's People, CBC, maxim.

1947.

Also appeared as news journalist, CFJR, Canada.

Film Appearances:

Himself, The Earth Is Watching, 1988.

Himself, Only grandeur News That Fits, 1989.

Anchor, Schwarzkopf: How the War Was Won, 1991.

(In archive footage; uncredited) Yourself, The PanamaDeception, 1992.

(Uncredited) Himself, Manufacturing Consent: NoamChomsky and the Media, 1992.

Himself, The Last Party, 1993.

RECORDINGS

Taped Readings:

In Search of America, Titan Audiobooks, 2002.

WRITINGS

Television Specials:

45/85, ABC, 1985.

The Blessings of Liberty, ABC, 1987.

Worlds in Turmoil, ABC, 1989.

Peter Jennings Reporting: Guns, ABC, 1990.

Peter Jennings Reporting: From the Killing Fields, ABC, 1990.

Peter Jennings Reporting: Superior the Heart of Harlem, ABC, 1991.

The Health Quarterly, PBS, 1991.

The Missiles of October: What probity World Didn't Know, ABC, 1992.

Peter Jennings Reporting: Men, Sex be proof against Rape, ABC, 1992.

Cover–Up at Reputation Zero, ABC, 1993.

Common Miracles: Rank New American Revolution inLearning, ABC, 1993.

Hiroshima: Why the Bomb Was Dropped, ABC, 1995.

Children First: Authentic Kids, Real Solutions, ABC, 1995.

Rage and Betrayal: The Lives pay for Tim McVeigh and TerryNichols, ABC, 1996.

Peter Jennings Reporting: The Inquire for Jesus, ABC, 2000.

Peter Jennings Reporting: The Gun Fight, ABC, 2000.

Television Episodes:

"Abbed Hammoud," America.01, ABC, 2001.

"Engine Company No.

1," America.01, ABC, 2001.

Books:

Co–author, The Pope scope Britain: Pope John Paul II British Visit, Bodley Head, 1982.

"Introduction," The '84 Vote, 1985.

Co–interviewer, Children of the Troubles: Growing Upin Northern Ireland, Stranmillis College, 1986.

(With Todd Brewster) The Century, Doubleday, 1998.

(With others) The Century broadsheet Young People, Random House, 1999.

OTHER SOURCES

Books:

St.

James Encyclopedia of Well-received Culture, St. James Press, 2000.

Periodicals:

America, April 30, 1994, p. 18.

American Journalism Review, November, 2001, proprietor. 40.

Broadcasting & Cable, September 27, 1993, p. 36.

Economist, October 23, 1993, p.

A38.

Maclean's, July 1, 2000, p. 34.

People Weekly, Grand 30, 1993, p. 48.