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PHOTOS: Peter Jennings through the years

Friday, August 7, 2015
Max Robinson, Roone Arledge Frank Reynolds,and Peter Jennings, who make up the new ABC Evening News Team, are seen in New York, April 19, 1978.
Jennings, right, receives the Canadian Club Arts and Letters Award in 1984.
Network news anchormen, from left, Peter Jennings, ABC, Tom Brokaw, NBC, and Dan Rather, CBS, chat at a luncheon in 1986.
Jennings, center, talks with striking members of the Writers Guild of America outside ABC-TV offices in New York in 1987.
Jennings points out television camera angles to Ross Perot in 1992 prior to an electronic town hall meeting.
Jennings adjusts the microphone for then Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich during Fleet Week in 1995.
Jennings, Betty Friedan, center, and Julian Schnabel stop for a chat after receiving Lifetime Achievment Awards from the Academy of the Arts in 1998.
Jennings poses on the set of ABC's ''World News Tonight'' in New York in February 2001.
Jennings attends an awards ceremony for outstanding photojournalism of the war in Iraq in 2003.
Jennings does a report from the floor during the first day of the Republican National Convention in 2004.
Jennings speaks to the media in 2004 during the Television Critics Association press tour.
Peter Jennings makes an acceptance speech after receiving a DuPont Columbia Award Thursday, January 2005. He died in August 2005.
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Max Robinson, Roone Arledge Frank Reynolds,and Peter Jennings, who make up the new ABC Evening News Team, are seen in New York, April 19, 1978.
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