This special World News Tonight is devoted to Peter's life and legacy. "Peter Jennings once began this broadcast, his broadcast, by saying we have seen the news, and it is us. Tonight, the news is Peter; would that it were not. Our friend and colleague, the anchor of this broadcast for 22 years, died last night. His was a courageous and relatively brief battle with lung cancer. From so many parts of the country, and indeed the world, today, people said they felt a special connection with Peter." Charles Gibson.
—Anchor: Charles Gibson