(Some Minor Spoilers) True story of the first network anchorwoman Jessica Savitch, Sela Ward, who's life turned into a living hell after she made it to the top of the heap of network news coverage and reporting. Starting out at KHOU TV in Houston Jessica's career sky rocketed to the far more watched KYW TV News in Philadelphia and then ended up beating out Barbara Walters, who was 20 years her senior, in becoming the first anchorwoman in TV history at the NBC Network. Put on the D.C beat during the 1976 presidential campaign that Jimmy Carter ended up winning Jessica was well out of her league in covering it. Not having any connections with the politicians she was covering Jessica soon ended up losing her ability to get the big scoop in that no one felt she was experienced enough to do her job. Still Jessica's rating were sky high and she managed to stay on the network as one of it's biggest and prettiest, she had no competition in that department at all, on the air stars!
It was Jessica's personal life that in the end did her and her career in with two failed marriages. One in which her husband D.C resident and gynecologist to the stars Donald Payne, William Converse Roberts, ended up hanging himself after going on an all day and night drug binge. Donald also introduced Jessica to hard drugs that she was addicted to for the remainder of her short, 36 years, life! There's also the Bowery bum like crude scuzzy and unshaven, was he's too poor to afford a razor and shaving cream, Ron Kershaw played by Ron Silver who for some strange reason Jessica put up with! That despite him physically as well as mentally abusing her! It may have been Ron's actions that gave Jessica the drive, in her surviving them, to get her to the top!
The world came to a tragic end for Jessica Savitch on the evening of October 23, 1983. It was then that Jessica was having dinner at the Chez Odette restaurant in New Hope PA. with her new boyfriend NY Post vice president Martin Fischbern. Fischbern later drove out in a blinding rainstorm and, not seeing the do not enter or dead end sign, had his station-wagon flip over and land in the Delaware Canal he together with Jessica together and her pet husky, given to her as a present by Ron Kershaw, Chevy drowned. Even in death Jessica got a raw deal in that on that very day-Oct 23, 1983-two stories overshadowed her senseless and tragic death in the news: The bombing of the US Marines barracks in Beirut Lebanon, where some 250 Marines were killed, as well as the US invasion of Granada! Speaking of both dumb and rotten luck Jessica had more then her share of it!!
It was Jessica's personal life that in the end did her and her career in with two failed marriages. One in which her husband D.C resident and gynecologist to the stars Donald Payne, William Converse Roberts, ended up hanging himself after going on an all day and night drug binge. Donald also introduced Jessica to hard drugs that she was addicted to for the remainder of her short, 36 years, life! There's also the Bowery bum like crude scuzzy and unshaven, was he's too poor to afford a razor and shaving cream, Ron Kershaw played by Ron Silver who for some strange reason Jessica put up with! That despite him physically as well as mentally abusing her! It may have been Ron's actions that gave Jessica the drive, in her surviving them, to get her to the top!
The world came to a tragic end for Jessica Savitch on the evening of October 23, 1983. It was then that Jessica was having dinner at the Chez Odette restaurant in New Hope PA. with her new boyfriend NY Post vice president Martin Fischbern. Fischbern later drove out in a blinding rainstorm and, not seeing the do not enter or dead end sign, had his station-wagon flip over and land in the Delaware Canal he together with Jessica together and her pet husky, given to her as a present by Ron Kershaw, Chevy drowned. Even in death Jessica got a raw deal in that on that very day-Oct 23, 1983-two stories overshadowed her senseless and tragic death in the news: The bombing of the US Marines barracks in Beirut Lebanon, where some 250 Marines were killed, as well as the US invasion of Granada! Speaking of both dumb and rotten luck Jessica had more then her share of it!!
