Jessica Savitch’s Death – Cause and Date
Born (Birthday) February 1, 1947
Death Date October 23, 1983
Age of Death 36 years
Cause of Death N/A
Place of Death New Hope, Pennsylvania, United States
Profession Journalist
The journalist Jessica Savitch died at the age of 36. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
Remembered for anchoring New York’s weekend edition of NBC Nightly News and for hosting the PBS news program Frontline, she is particularly notable as the first female anchor of a nationally-broadcast weekend news program.
After graduating from Ithaca College in New York, she worked briefly for Houston’s KHOU-TV channel and for New York’s WCBS-AM radio station.
Tragically, she died in her mid-thirties as the result of a single-vehicle car accident that also killed New York Post executive Martin Fischbein.
Quotes
""It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS."
Jessica Savitch
""A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men."
""Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities."
""Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth."
""When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it."