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Jessica Beth Savitch (February 1, 1947 – October 23, 1983) was an American television journalist who was the weekend anchor of NBC Nightly News and daily newsreader for NBC News during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Savitch was one of the first women to anchor an evening network newscast alone, following in the footsteps of Marlene Sanders ...
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Linda Ellerbee (born Linda Jane Smith; August 15, 1944) is...
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Personal life and death. While in Houston, Kershaw had been...
- New Hope, Pennsylvania
New Hope is a borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United...
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Sue Simmons (born May 27, 1942) is an American retired news...
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Oct 18, 2013 · Remembering Jessica Savitch, 30 Years After Her Death. By Alissa Krinsky on Oct. 18, 2013 - 7:00 AM. In the early 1980s, with cable in its infancy and network anchors dominating the airwaves, one ...
- Alissa Krinsky
Dec 31, 2014 · Linda Ellerbee grew concerned and gathered a group to stage an intervention. It was to happen on a Monday. But on Sunday, Jessica had a date with the New York Post’s Martin Fischbein. He signed out a 1982 Oldsmobile station wagon from the Post’s fleet, and they headed toward Bucks County, PA with Chewy in tow.
Remembering Jessica Savitch 30 Years After Her Death. By Alanna Nash, October 22, 2013 12:18 PM. Jessica Savitch, 1947-1983. This week I'll travel from my home in Kentucky to stand at the spot in New Hope, Pa., where NBC News anchor Jessica Savitch (right) died 30 years ago tonight on the rainy fall evening of October 23.
Jessica Savitch: The Star Eclipsed. By Curt Suplee. October 25, 1983 at 1:00 a.m. EDT. The career of NBC newscaster Jessica Savitch, which ended with her death yesterday in Bucks County ...
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Oct 23, 2013 · Jessica Savitch only spent a year in Houston at KHOU-TV, but the role launched a career full of milestones that broke the glass ceiling for women in broadcast journalism before her death 30 years ago.