<p>Peter Jennings died. They are talking about it on TV now if anyone else is awake.</p>
<p>My goodness. We’ve lost a legend.</p>
<p>I first remember him when I was a teenager, I think he reported on Vietnam…could it have been that long ago… I hope his family knows how many people have their prayers with them at this time.</p>
<p>Whoa…Cronkite, Huntley & Brinkley, Reynolds, Rather, Brokaw, and now Jennings…all off the air. Boy, do I feel old.</p>
<p>Pretty shocking. I’m feeling a bit old now too. :-(</p>
<p>It’s probably the end of the era of the network news anchor. With 24/7 cable news coverage, who needs to wait until 6:30 to get your news of the day.</p>
<p>It’s strange how the 3 anchors seem to leave at the same time - the 3 before Jennings, Brokaw and Rather departed at the same time, too.</p>
<p>I will miss Peter Jennings.</p>
<p>“With 24/7 cable news coverage, who needs to wait until 6:30 to get your news of the day.”</p>
<p>I don’t receive 24/7 cable news coverage. I subscribe to Basic Cable and watch the ABC Evening News. Additional news sources are websites such as The London Times, BBC, Aftenposten, Fox News etc…</p>
<p>I’ll miss seeing Peter Jennings report the news.</p>
<p>I had a crush on him when I was a teenager. Actually I think I’ve had a crush on him ever since. Urbane, intelligent, and – what’s relevant to this site – actually a high-school dropout.</p>
<p>I’ve never liked a thing about his public persona, but as a fellow human traveler on this planet, I regret that he died this way, and I wish peace for him and his family.</p>
<p>Now all three anchors from when I was kid are gone off the news. Sound unusual, but I remember him most during September 11th more than any other time. How he stayed on the air all day kept a lot of people sane that day.</p>
<p>High school Dropout? I read somewhere that he attended Carleton University in Ontario and Rider College in NJ.</p>
<p>No, his lack of formal education has been widely documented.</p>
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<p>“Nightline” anchor Ted Koppel: He and I joked the last time I went to visit him a few days ago that between the two of us, we’d put in 83 years at ABC News. But I do feel the need to say that he was a warm and loving and surprisingly sentimental man. For the rest of his life, and I do mean for the rest of his life, he always regretted the fact that he had dropped out of school, and he used to travel when he was overseas with whatever else he needed for his trip and always, he had with him one extra suitcase that was filled with books. He was a student for the rest of his life, even though he had dropped out so early. <a href=“Friends Remember Peter Jennings - ABC News”>http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=1018090&page=1</a></p>
<p>I believe it was Cokie Roberts on NPR this morning who mentioned that Jennings finally became an American citizen in 2003, and was totally thrilled to have cast his vote in the 2004 elections. She mentioned poignantly that he had no way to know it would be the only vote he’d cast.</p>
<p>I heard Charlie Gibson say one of the saddest things for Peter after his chemo started, was having to miss his son graduate with honors from Wesleyan. I hope someone filmed it for him though. Clark Univ. did that for a student who’s Dad was sick with cancer and it meant the world to him.
I admired him very much and will miss his presence on the news.</p>
<p>aparent, I too have always heard of his thirst for knowledge stemming from being a high-school dropout. But then I guess his own folk, the Canadians have different information regarding his education.</p>
<p>I read this:
in a Canadian paper.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/toronto/story.html?id=c60e48d9-ba24-4bde-9690-396bc3716364[/url]”>http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/toronto/story.html?id=c60e48d9-ba24-4bde-9690-396bc3716364</a></p>
<p>Or perhaps those were but brief forays. And I did read those 2 college names on several sites reporting his death.</p>