Jennings’ work on AIDS to air

A year after he died, Peter Jennings will be seen on camera next week as part of an ABC News documentary about AIDS that he was working on when he was diagnosed with lung cancer.

The program, “Out of Control: AIDS in Black America,” was completed with Terry Moran as anchor and is scheduled for 10 p.m. Thursday.

He is shown midway through the documentary conducting a discussion among HIV-positive black men. It was recorded a few weeks before Jennings was diagnosed with cancer in spring, 2005.

Some at ABC wondered whether it would strike viewers as strange to see Jennings a year after he died, so they argued for cutting the segment out. There was thought given to keeping comments from the round-table and cutting Jennings out but it was agreed his interchanges with the men were interesting.

Moran tells viewers at the outset of the documentary and before the round-table that Jennings was included, to avoid confusion.