Jessica Savitch
Jessica Beth Savitch 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 of ABC News and Catherine Mackin of NBC News. She also hosted PBS's public affairs program Frontline from its January 1983 debut until her death in a car crash the following October.
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- Born in
- Kennett Square
- Educated at
- Ithaca CollegeAtlantic City High SchoolRoy H. Park School of Communications
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1947
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Birth1983
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