Peter Jennings, prime-time anchorman for ABC News whose career spanned five decades from the Cold War to the war on terrorism, has died of lung cancer, the network said. He was 67.
The Canadian-born Jennings, host of ABC's "World News Tonight" since 1983, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan. The newsman announced in April he had lung cancer and was beginning chemotherapy.
"Peter died with his family around him, without pain and in peace. He knew he'd lived a good life," his family said in a statement.
Jennings was the last of a generation of long-serving lead anchors for major US broadcasters.
Jennings had a 41-year career with ABC, having joined the network in 1964. He soon went head-to-head with the toughest competition in the business, anchoring the prime-time news from 1965 to 1967 at a time when Walter Cronkite on CBS and the team of David Brinkley and Chet Huntley on NBC were dominant.
Jennings is survived by his wife Kayce Freed, and his two children Elizabeth, 25 and Christopher, 23.
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