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Oct 25, 1983 · Jessica Savitch, the NBC television reporter who became one of the first women to anchor an evening network newscast, was killed late Sunday night after the car she and a companion were in drove ...
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 ...
Nov 28, 2023 · Celebrity. Features. What Really Happened to Jessica Savitch? In the 40 years since her death, the pioneering newscaster has become an Icarus-like parable, a woman who was punished for her outsize ...
- Justine Harman
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
Oct 25, 1983 · October 25, 1983 at 1:00 a.m. EDT. Jessica Savitch, 35, an award-winning newswoman with the NBC network since 1977, drowned early yesterday after the car she was riding in plunged into the ...
Sep 4, 1995 · September 3, 1995 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. Jessica Savitch lived a much too short and much too unhappy life. It ended in an auto accident 12 years ago, but she is still one of the most talked-about ...
Oct 22, 2013 · Remembering Jessica Savitch 30 Years After Her Death. 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. I'll be wearing one of her amethyst birthstone rings - a gift from her sister, Lori, whose ...
