February 1, 1965 - December 29, 1967
Twenty six year old Peter Jennings begins anchoring the ABC Evening News, broadcast in black and white.
Selina crisis; negroes arrested during voter registration drive, Martin Luther King is arrested, 700 arrested in jail protest, fighting in Laos, forty killed in South Vietnam, McGeorge Bundy to confer with Maxwell Taylor, LBJ may visit, Beirut, a report from Marina.
NOTE: It was during Peter Jennings tenure that ABC's evening newscast expanded to thirty minutes on January 9, 1967, at which time the broadcast also reverted to color. Correspondent Howard K. Smith would appear daily contributing news analysis.
ABC was the third network to lengthen its early evening newscast.
nearly three and half years after both CBS and NBC had expanded their evening news programs to a half - hour.