NEW YORK (Reuters) - 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.
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