Posted on 02/17/2006 9:44:46 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
February 17, 2006 -- The Upper West Side street on which ABC News' headquarters is located is getting a second name — in honor of the late Peter Jennings. West 66th between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue will be Peter Jennings Way as of next Tuesday. Jennings, 67, died in August, just four months after disclosing that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer.
He anchored "World News Tonight" for 22 years and, with Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather, was considered one of the Big Three evening-news anchors. Brokaw retired from "NBC Nightly News" in 2004 and Rather from "CBS Evening News" in March 2005.
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Judging by the comments here, it would appear that the De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum period has expired ;-)
Why not just rename Broadway to Quisling Street and honor all the journalists and Hollywood types with one big ceremony?
I think of that street now and again....Makes me grin.
I can't imagine thinking about a street named after Peter Jennings.....
what?
no national holiday?
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