SIGNING OFF: ABC News anchor Peter Jennings, "a high school dropout from Canada who transformed himself into one of the most urbane, well-traveled and recognizable journalists on American television", has passed away at 67.
The Washington Post's Marc Fisher wrote of his 9/11 reporting: "We watched Peter Jennings' beard grow, and we were somehow reassured that he did not shave, that through morning, afternoon, evening and on into the night, he did not leave the desk, that he confided in us his uncertainties, that he shared the confusions of each hour. He grew more pale and more vulnerable, as if he knew that we needed him to be human, so that we could be together."
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