All of you may be interested in knowing this: The area to be named for American Patriot Peter Jennings is the same spot where Nathan Hale was hanged. Liberals suck. WTF?
Posted on 02/21/2006 1:09:43 PM PST by presidio9
The City of New York will pay tribute to Peter Jennings today when the street where ABC News headquarters is located is renamed in his honor.
It is a permanent geographical memorial to the man who left such an indelible mark on the landscape of American journalism.
West 66th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue in New York City's Upper West Side will be dubbed "Peter Jennings Way." The Jennings family, ABC News President David Westin, New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg and many of Jennings' former colleagues will attend the naming ceremony.
Jennings lived close to his office and he loved his neighborhood. He died last August at age 67 from lung cancer, four months after publicly disclosing his illness.
Jennings first joined ABC News in 1964, anchoring "Peter Jennings with the News" from 1965 to 1967. He was named anchor and senior editor of "World News Tonight" in 1983 and was honored with almost every major award given to television journalists in his 22 years in the anchor chair. Jennings won 16 Emmys, two George Foster Peabody Awards, several Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, several Overseas Press Club Awards and two consecutive Edward R. Murrow Awards.
A Distinguished Career and Legacy As one of America's most distinguished journalists, Jennings reported many pivotal, world-shaping events. He was also an author, writing "The Century" with Todd Brewster. The book, which was on The New York Times' best-seller list, is structured as an epic tale about "ourselves," featuring astonishing first-person accounts of the great events of the century.
He also established the first American television news bureau in the Arab world in 1968 when he served as ABC News' bureau chief in Beirut, Lebanon, a position he held for seven years.
Jennings helped put ABC News on the map in 1972 with his coverage of the Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, when Arab terrorists took Israeli athletes hostage.
His extensive domestic and overseas reporting experience was evident in "World News Tonight's" coverage of major crises. He reported from all 50 states and locations around the globe. During the 1991 Gulf War and the 2003 War in Iraq, his knowledge of Middle Eastern affairs brought invaluable perspective to ABC News' coverage of the war in Iraq and the drug trade in Central and South America.
The series also tackled important domestic issues such as gun control policy, the politics of abortion, the crisis in funding for the arts and a highly praised chronicle of the accused bombers of Oklahoma City. "Peter Jennings Reporting" earned numerous awards, including the 2004 Edward R. Murrow Award for best documentary for "The Kennedy Assassination -- Beyond Conspiracy."
Jennings' last documentary "Peter Jennings Reporting: Breakdown -- America's Health Insurance Crisis," aired on ABC in December. Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff succeeded him as co-anchors of "World News Tonight" in January. Woodruff is recuperating from injuries he suffered from a bomb attack while reporting from Iraq last month.
I guess @ss Wipe Stree was already taken.
I used to work for a company that was headquartered on Avenue of the Americas (right between Fox News and CNN). It was always referred to the Avenue of the Americas office, not 6th Avenue.
But I get what you're saying. I always say 6th (because it's shorter, not because I buy into NYC native snobbiness).
isn't that at the cross section of Lying Liberal Puke Blvd?
That or "Bakalakalaka St."
I live in NYC, and I have no interest in defending the liberal stupidity that goes on here. That being said, I read 1776, and I didn't come away with the idea that NY had more or less loyalists. It had some, and they were treated harshly by the Washington's forces that occupied Manhattan in 1776. It had more rebels, or the Army would have left. Every part of this country had its fair share of loyalists (just as today, there are people in all parts who think the war against terrorism is "illegal.") The bulk of the Revolutionary War was fought in and around NYC, which makes it likely that NY was disproportionately represented in the Continental Army.
I live in NYC, and I have no interest in defending the liberal stupidity that goes on here. That being said, I read 1776, and I didn't come away with the idea that NY had more or less loyalists. It had some, and they were treated harshly by the Washington's forces that occupied Manhattan in 1776. It had more rebels, or the Army would have left. Every part of this country had its fair share of loyalists (just as today, there are people in all parts who think the war against terrorism is "illegal.") The bulk of the Revolutionary War was fought in and around NYC, which makes it likely that NY was disproportionately represented in the Continental Army.
Does this street run one way....to the left???
One of my favorites is Senor Wences Way, over by The Ed Sullivan Theater. He contributed a lot more to the quality of life in the US than Jennings ever did. If memory serves, there is even an "Israeli War Bonds Way" not far from the UN, ironically enough.
66th street is one way and heading west. So yes.
He did? Who knew?
Will Canada be renaming any streets, after all, Jennings was a canuck!
I may have to go walk my dog on west 66th stW
All of you may be interested in knowing this: The area to be named for American Patriot Peter Jennings is the same spot where Nathan Hale was hanged. Liberals suck. WTF?
Please don't do that before you see post 33.
Thanks for that recap. I remember Jennings interviewing Hannan Ashrawi after Septmeber 11th. Well, it really wasn't an interview, he just let her rant for a few minutes. Good Night and Good Luck Peter!
FWIW, Jennings became an American citizen in 2003.
So? He spent most of his life as a Canadian citizen, so the question is still on the board, will Canada be renaming any streets.......
RATher wants 16th street named after him, but he still can't figure out the small "th" stuff.......DOH!!
A big fan of 60's radio, I used to listen to the big AM 50,000 watt monsters and loved WABC. Peter Jennings was a newsman there early. But the night jock, Cousin Brucie Morrow, has a piece of 6th Avenue named for him in (I believe between 51st and 52nd St.). It's Cousin Brucie Way.
The next President of the United States had it named for him in the 90's.
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