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A Tribute To Peter Jennings
« on: Aug 13th, 2005, 9:05pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
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Peter, we'll miss you 'til the 12th of never.
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Re: A Tribute To Peter Jennings
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If you would like to show support, in lieu of flowers, Peter Jennings' family asks that you contribute to one of the organizations that he supported, worked for and believed in deeply:
 
Coalition for the Homeless  
129 Fulton Street  
New York, NY 10038  
(212) 776-2002  
Attn: Mary Brosnahan Sullivan  
http://www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/  
 
Remembering the Soundtrack of Jennings' Life  
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict  
Full Coverage: Peter Jennings  
Women In Need  
115 West 31st Street  
New York, NY 10001  
(212) 695-4758  
Attn: Robin White  
http://www.women-in-need.org/index.html  
 
Teach For America  
315 West 36th Street  
6th Floor  
New York, NY 10018
(212) 279-2080  
Attn: Wendy Kopp  
http://www.teachforamerica.org/flash_movie.html  
 
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Lung Cancer Research Fund  
Make checks out to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Thoracic Research Fund  
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital  
1275 York Avenue  
Room H1018  
New York, NY 10021
Or donate online and specify the program  
http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/12876.cfm  
 
 
Veritas Therapeutic Community
912 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10025
Attn: Jim Little
(212) 865-9182
http://www.veritas-inc.org/
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Peter Jennings loved music. He even used it to help him work.  
 
On Fridays, when it was time to write scripts for "Person of the Week," he would often put on the Willie Nelson song, "It Always Will Be."  
 
 
Remembering the Soundtrack of Jennings' Life
 
He would let it get him choked up and then start writing.  
 
For Jennings, journalism was not just in the words — not only in the "think" of the story — but also the feel of the story, the emotion, to which music helped him connect.  
 
Jennings loved all kinds of music. His staff once called in bagpipe players for a birthday surprise in the newsroom.  
 
 
Lover of Jazz Music
 
But Jennings really loved jazz. He raised money for his favorite causes each summer by hosting the "Jazz at Jennings" charitable event at his home.  
 
"I like country music, I like jazz, I like Latin music, I like rock and roll, I like classical music a lot," he said in a recent interview. "I think I like almost everything except heavy metal. And I go to listen to a lot of music when I can."  
 
"He loved jazz," said jazz singer Shannon Gibbons, a friend of Jennings. "I think just the volatile nature of it. The idea is improvisation, the whole idea behind jazz is to do something that you haven't done before, and he was intrigued by that," Gibbons said.  
 
"In many ways, Peter was like a jazz musician," said jazz trumpeter John Faddis, also a friend of Jennings. "He was able to tell a story, and that's what jazz musicians since the beginning of jazz have always tried to do when playing and improvising is to tell a story."  
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