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  1. Dec 31, 2014 · Jessica Savitch was a famous, yet tragic figure who met her demise in an Oldsmobile. That’s good enough for me. Did anyone else notice how radically different her appearance was in her final news broadcast versus the other photos?

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  2. A true pioneer in broadcasting, Savitch fought gender discrimination to land news-anchor jobs in Houston and Philadelphia. At age 30 she become the first woman to anchor the weekend news for NBC, where she also covered Capitol Hill.

  3. Oct 25, 1983 · NEW HOPE, Pa. -- NBC newscaster Jessica Savitch, whose professional triumphs and personal tragedies were documented in her recent autobiography 'Anchorwoman,' drowned in a canal 'within a very...

  4. She died at the age of 36 from drowning after the car she was riding in ran off the road and crashed into a canal. Her life was the subject of a Lifetime Television made-for-TV movie, starring Sela Ward, called "Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story."

  5. A documentary about the life of Jessica Savitch, an NBC news reporter who died at the age of 36 in 1983 due to accidental drowning.

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  6. Oct 25, 1983 · The career of NBC newscaster Jessica Savitch, which ended with her death yesterday in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, rivaled the most fantastic fiction in its amalgam of professional struggle,...

  7. Jun 27, 1988 · Three weeks later, Savitch, 36, and a date, New York Post Executive Martin Fischbein, accidentally drove into a canal in New Hope, Pa., and were killed.

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