William Peter Main Trueman was a Canadian television and radio personality, best known for his work for the Global Television Network between 1974 and 1977, and from 1978 to July 1988.
11 Facts About Peter Trueman
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Peter Trueman was the son of Albert Trueman, an academic and arts administrator.
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When Trueman was 23, he moved to the Montreal Star to be their New York City-based columnist and would cover the assassination of John F Kennedy for the paper.
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Peter Trueman produced The National during the FLQ Crisis in 1970.
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Peter Trueman became the first anchor for Global News in 1974.
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Peter Trueman retired permanently from Global News in 1988 "in disgust" over the declining quality of news coverage at the network.
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Peter Trueman later joined Vision TV to host a 26-part series called North-South about Canada's relation to the Third World.
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Peter Trueman served as host and managing editor of the Discovery Channel's award-winning series Great Canadian Parks in 1996 and oversaw a series of documentaries for the History Channel featuring national historic sites.
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Peter Trueman was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in May 2001 and invested in October of the following year.
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Peter Trueman was conferred the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012.
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Peter Trueman was 86, and had suffered from cancer prior to his death.