Born in 1938 , its hard to believe this Canadian was retired from his first job as anchor at ABC News in the 1960s because of his accent and poor skills (being that he was a high school dropout who described himself as "lazy"). His time as a foreign correspondent for ABC made him an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, and it was after the Challenger disaster that he solidified himself as the most trusted man in network news. Identify this long time journalist and newscaster, the primary anchor for World News Tonight throughout the 1980s who received his award a year after dying from lung cancer.
Peter Jennings