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Ted Koppel Remembers Peter Jennings

By Madeleine Brand

Published August 7, 2005 at 10:00 PM MDT

Renowned ABC News anchorman Peter Jennings died Monday night, four months after announcing on the air that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer. He was 67. Madeleine Brand speaks with Ted Koppel, a longtime colleague of Jennings and host of ABC's Nightline, about the newsman's long and remarkable career.

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Madeleine Brand

Madeleine Brand is the host of NPRs newest and fastest-growing daily show, Day to Day. She conducts interviews with newsmakers (Iraqi politicians, US senators), entertainment figures (Bernardo Bertolluci, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Ricky Gervais), and the everyday people affected by the news (an autoworker laid off at GM, a mother whose son was killed in Iraq).

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