Thursday, Dec. 5, 2002
Peter Jennings comments on Roone Arledge:
I write from San Francisco this afternoon - very briefly, because we're on deadline. And I am very sorry to say that the saddest news of the day for many of us in this news division is that our longtime leader, my mentor in many ways, Roone Arledge, died a short while ago after losing a long struggle with cancer. He fought so hard for so long. I was thinking a moment ago that two of his youngest correspondents (at one time), Ted Koppel and I, are both on the road reporting today. I am in California and Ted is in Baghdad. We are two of the many who owe our careers to Arledge. We learned so much from him. He was well-known to millions of Americans because he brought so much innovation to television. At the end of World News Tonight, we will reminisce about an exciting life.
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