Longtime ABC News anchor Peter Jennings has died of lung cancer at the age of 67.

Jennings began anchoring ABC's "World News Tonight" in 1983.

The longtime reporter was one of the "Big Three" anchors who dominated the evening news in America for over two decades. The other two network anchors, Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather, had already stepped down.

ABC News issued a statement.

"Hate Calls Swamp Herndon Town Hall," proclaimed the Washington Post Metro section headline above the fold in Saturday's edition, "Radio Host Had Urged Day-Labor Site Protests." Staff writer Lisa Rein penned the story on how a substitute talk show host for WMAL---a mostly conservative-programmed news-talk station which carries Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh---had succeeded in harnassing his audience's ire at a local Northern Virginia town planning to use tax money to build a jobs center for illegal aliens:

Herndon Town Hall unplugged its phone lines yesterday after
listeners of a talk show on WMAL-AM flooded the switchboard with what
officials said were hate calls against a proposed day-laborer site.