http://www.wsu.edu/murrow/archive-symposium-pages/04-jennings.html Pls click on Click below the picture to watch a video of the award presentation and the Jennings? address. I happened to find out this site where you can see Peter Jennings received an award for his Lifetime Achievement in Broadcasting April 14 2004 at Washington State University?s 30th Murrow Symposium. It is very interesting speech presented by Peter Jennings. He recited quite many hilarious stories during his career life.He made audiences and myself laugh. The duration of this video clip is 90 minutes. The first 20 minutes was introduced by some other 2 people. The rest of 70 minutes was presented Peter Jennings. Watching him with his speech brought me back to the time before August08. I forgot any moment of Grief from Agu08 until Now. I thought as if he is still around here. Please take some time to watch.It is really interesting to know more about Peter Jenning outside of his anchor desk. He was such a lovely man with full of humor. Regards, LLP

Thank-you for posting this URL. Very thought-provoking... particularly the question and answer session with the students. And of course, it was wonderful to hear that voice again.

Thank you for posting this. Keep the video links coming.

Thank you SO much for posting this! I never knew Peter could be this engaging or funny. I laughed out loud in some places. It was exactly what I needed. igm

Thank you so much for posting this link! It was a great! I have now watched 3 of these ( the other two were C-Span) and see just how much we are going to miss his presence. News is going to change I think. And, I'm going to protest if I think it isn't going the way I think it should - the way Peter Jennings thought it should. I have to agree with him - the evening news should be an hour long and have more context. Lisa.

more generation of journalists and citizens stand up and say it for him and themselves as well. Shelley

I just had the pleasure of listening to and watching the video recommended here. There is so much sincerity and wisdom represented here. I'm not just talking about how may tears we've all shed over his death, I'm talking about good sound advice for our future as a nation and to journalists in general. In a swing toward more corporate ownership of everything his comments ring true; writing to express discontent with news broadcast material or wanting to see "a better story" as his last questioner put it, ring true. How many times do we complain about things and not take the time to try and launch improvement? Many times people have expressed Peter Jennings's interest in becoming a U.S. citizen, or his interest in American history and this may be the reason why, if not one them, he was so comitted to America. We really do have the means in place to change things. His comments on our national dialog being at times nothing more than a "shouting match" show the frustration and the hope of oen who believes people really can change things. He may have known about a move afoot to engage American communities about the things that affect them both positively and negatively in forming more conversations that can address those issues and find out what is important to people and have others listen and work together to achieve results. There is such a move afoot and I was proud to be part of one of those projects this year. I'm taking those skills I learned and am putting them into action with another organization that I have worked with for many years and now have the possibility to lead in their new direction. I wasn't surprised that Peter noted the "shouting matchign" quality of our dialog" and it was very very refreshing to hear thesxe comments from someone we all respect. Now I know why I respected him so much. His life was about nforming us not sensationalizing us. Media, owners, boards, etc, should take these things to heart. People really do like inteligent presentations and don't like being sensationalized so much that they're led to believe the sensational presentation is the truth. Perhaps the most touching part of this video is when he said he lived for his "last day in broadcasting" when he could look at the camera and say he was "mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore" in regard to network sensationalism. It is ironic that his last broadcast was to announce his illness. However, he has, perhaps unknowingly to himself or us, helped n

Thanks so much for this link! I watched the whole thing. It was fabulous too see Peter get that Murrow honor and hear him speak and take questions. I too, noticed he got quite parched within 30 minutes or so and began coughing and then he had a bad spell until someone sent him some water and a cough drop to the podium. I began to listen to his voice closer after that and maybe it was hindsight, but it seemed to be "weak" in places. It wasn't the BOLD, yet quiet Peter that I came to know and love. I think I just became complacent and got used to him sounding the way he was everynight instead of the stronger voiced man of say, two years ago. It made me sad immediately because it snapped me right into the reality that this wasn't the present Peter, this WAS our Peter! He's gone........and while I was watching that at the beginning, for just awhile, I forgot that it wasn't live or that he wasn't with us any longer. I was just so focused on what he was saying! I was "in the moment" with him. Why did he ever have to smoke with the gift of that voice he was given and then the job he had that allowed him to use "his instrument" nightly to talk with all of us? Oh, I'm just sick to be reminded it was all so not necessary for him to die. Not so soon and not like he did. He, and we, deserved better. We all deserved more time to be together at our dinner tables. Thank you again for the link. Lee