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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 ...
Jessica Savitch: Host Frontline: 25 1983-10-23 Drowned in a car accident 1 Replaced during the second season by Judy Woodruff. Michael Conrad: Phil Esterhaus: Hill Street Blues: 1983-11-22 Urethral cancer: 4 Character killed off while having sex with Grace Gardner.
Linda Ellerbee (born Linda Jane Smith; August 15, 1944) is an American journalist, anchor, producer, reporter, author, speaker and commentator, noted as longtime Washington correspondent for NBC News and host of NBC News Overnight.
Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story is a 1995 American biographical drama television film directed by Peter Werner and written by Linda Bergman. It stars Sela Ward as a television journalist Jessica Savitch. The film premiered on Lifetime on September 4, 1995.
During a live NBC news update, anchor Jessica Savitch appears incoherent, slurring her speech, deviating from her copy and ad-libbing her report. Savitch, dogged by rumors of drug abuse and instability, still has her contract renewed, but drowns in a car accident three weeks later. [13] October 6
Jessica Savitch (1946–), NBC News [155] Michael S. Schmidt (1983–), correspondent for The New York Times [156] Douglas Schoen (1953–), political analyst and commentator for Fox News and Newsmax TV [157] Daniel Schorr (1916–2010), journalist who covered the world for more than 60 years, last as a senior news analyst for NPR [158]
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In 1988 Nash received acclaim for her book on Jessica Savitch, Golden Girl: The Story of Jessica Savitch, which was the basis for the 1996 motion picture Up Close & Personal, [5] as well as a made-for-television movie named Almost Golden. In the 1990s Nash began researching the life of Elvis Presley in order to write a book.