Canadian-born newsreader Peter Jennings, who read the news to Americans in five separate decades, has died at the age of 67.

Mr Jennings, who announced that he was suffering from lung cancer in April, died at his home in New York.

He has been described as one of the most powerful and influential journalists on television in the US.

Mr Jennings had worked with the ABC network since 1964, covering both the Berlin's Wall building and fall.

-BBCNews.com

Peter Jennings... John Wayne... my 2nd Mom... that's three people I greatly admired who have died from lung cancer now. Next year I plan to do the Blog-a-Thon and my charity of choice will be the American Cancer Society. I've known many people with cancer: family and friends. It is likely (though not certain) I will get cancer sometime in the future. The research is there, we just need to support it.

Posted by Utopia at August 8, 2005 12:08 AM

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