The next year , CTV , Canada 's first private TV network and a fledgling competitor of his father 's network , hired the 24-year-old Jennings as co-anchor of its late-night national newscast . While reporting for CTV , he was the first Canadian journalist to arrive in Dallas after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy . In 1964 , CTV sent Jennings to cover the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City , New Jersey . There , he ran into Elmer Lower , then president of ABC News , who offered him a job as a correspondent for the American network , an opportunity Jennings initially rejected . " The job was pretty intimidating for a guy like me in a tiny city in Canada , " Jennings later recalled . " I thought , What if I screw up ? What if I fail ? " Three months later though , he changed his mind and moved to the United States
assassination of President John F. Kennedy
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Peter Jennings