“In the vastness of an ornate auditorium Tuesday, every detail of the memorial service for the ABC anchor who died last month was meticulously rendered — down to the ties from Jennings’s closet that his widow, Kayce, gave the 14 ushers because he was always chiding colleagues about their unimpressive neckwear,” Howard Kurtz recaps.
More: “As color photos of Jennings flashed above the stage, the ceremony had the brisk pacing of a television show. From the opening bagpipes to the speakers’ brief remembrances, the program was punctuated by offerings from musicians — Jennings was a huge jazz fan — including Ma and Wynton Marsalis, who took advantage of Carnegie’s impressive acoustics.”
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