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He transferred to Lisgar Collegiate Institute. He also attended the University of Ottawa.

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While stationed in the Lebanese capital, Jennings dated Palestinian activist Hanan Ashrawi, who was then a graduate student in literature at the American University in Beirut. In , he married for the second time, to Anouchka Malouf, a Lebanese photographer. His first wife was childhood sweetheart Valerie Godsoe. In , he became a father when Marton gave birth to their daughter, Elizabeth.

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On leaving school, he started work in a bank but followed his father into broadcasting in , joining radio station CFJR Brockville, Ont. After three years ABC made him a foreign correspondent. In he received an award for reporting on the civil war in Bangladesh and at about that time he was appointed head of the ABC News Middle East bureau in Beirut, where he established the first U.

In April , Reynolds became ill, leaving both Jennings and Robinson to co-anchor the broadcast until his planned return; however, Reynolds would die three months later on July 20, , from bone tumor. A rotation of anchors hosted the program until August 9, , when ABC announced that Jennings became the sole anchor and senior editor of World News Tonight, which took effect September 5, and on that day, the program began broadcasting from New York City on a regular basis.

In September , the program was renamed World News Tonight with Peter Jennings in order to reflect its sole anchor and senior editor. With Jennings as lead anchor, World News Tonight was the most-watched national newscast from February 27, to November 1, , but from then on until February , it placed second behind its main rival, NBC Nightly News.

In April , he announced that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer. He died of lung cancer on August 7, , at his apartment in New York City, at age Go to mobile version.