When Peter Jennings succumbed to lung cancer on Aug. 7, the world lost more than a news anchor; it lost an archetype. Above and beyond his contributions as a journalist, Jennings held an appeal in ...

Aug. 7, 2006 -- A year ago today, World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings died from lung cancer caused by smoking cigarettes. Jennings had long battled his nicotine addiction.

ABC News anchor Peter Jennings died 15 years ago Aug. 7 at his home in New York City. Earlier that year, Jennings announced he had been diagnosed with lung cancer. He died weeks later at age 67.

The emotion that greeted the news of Jennings's death was, on some level, an expression of this anxious nostalgia. "I am weeping for a man I never met," began one of the posts on ABC's Peter ...

From an objective standpoint, that ABC television devoted virtually all of its “World News Tonight” August 8 to the death by lung cancer of its former anchorman Peter Jennings was rather ...

ABC's veteran news anchor, Peter Jennings, has died at age 67. He had announced in April that he was suffering from lung cancer. The Canadian-born broadcaster died at his home in New York on Sunday.

NEW YORK — Peter Jennings, the suave, Canadian-born broadcaster who delivered the news to Americans each night in five separate decades, died yesterday. He was 67.

Peter Jennings, the ABC News anchor up until this past April when he announced he had lung cancer, died last night at his Central Park West home. The NY Times obituary describes him as "urbane ...

Peter Jenning's death is causing some people to change how they live, right here in Utah. It's been only a few days since Jenning's lost his battle to lung cancer.

New York, August 7, 2005 -- Peter Jennings, the suave, Canadian-born broadcaster who delivered the news to Americans each night in five separate decades, died Sunday. He was 67. Jennings, who ...

Peter Jennings' death of lung cancer has startled a number of Americans smokers. Some already have quit the habit. Others are thinking about it. "It freaked me out," said Michele Ross, 39, of ...

Jan. 20, 2011 -- Five and a half years have passed since Peter Jennings, the longtime ABC News anchor and reporter (as he preferred to be known) died of lung cancer.