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Remember 40 years ago when the Robert Calvi investigative reporting lead directly (unprovable) to the death of Jessica Savitch, America's sexiest journalist? Catholics In Action struck again. Much like the Dorothy Kilgallen murder because she got information to "blow the Kennedy investigation out of the water" -she was JFK's good friend. For Savitch, if drugging the woman didn't end her career they went to drowning to end her life. 1000 pieces… and then smaller pieces… then GITMO… Jessica's autopsy showed NO EVIDENCE OF DRUGS - rather odd for a coke addict eh? They are still trying to call her a dope fiend. Sick sick sick.
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Mysterious death of NBC News anchor Jessica Savitch 40 years on: On-air slurring saw star, 36, accused of being high on COCAINE during 1983 broadcast - before she drowned in lover's car weeks later
Jessica Savitch tragically died on October 23, 1983 after having a meal with a friend who accidentally drove into a canal during a heavy rainstorm
The 36-year-old charismatic anchor was known as the Golden Girl of NBC News
July 22, 2023
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Forty years ago, America was shaken to its core by the erratic on-air behavior and subsequent tragic death of one of its most famous newscasters.
An incoherent NBC News broadcast helmed by Jessica Savitch on October 3 1983 sparked claims the quadruple Emmy-award winner gone on air while high on cocaine.
Just 20 days later, Savitch drowned after a car being driven by a lover, New York Post vice president Martin Fischbein, plunged into a canal and killed them both.
The death appears to have been an accident - although the New York Post later claimed she may have been murdered for probing an Italian banking scandal.
The newsreader and Fischbein, 34, who Savitch had been dating for two weeks, had enjoyed dinner at a restaurant called Chez Odette in New Hope, Pennsylvania.
They drove about 600 feet over a dirt-and-gravel area, and past two warning signs, with Fischbein taking a wrong turn and suddenly driving off the road.
The car fell 10 feet into the Delaware Canal and landed upside down.
There were signs that the pair had tried to kick down the doors to escape the sinking vehicle. The back window had been smashed, the horrific wreckage showed.
An autopsy showed that both Miss Savitch and Mr Fishbein died of suffocation due to drowning. No drugs were present in their system - both had only drunk a small glass of wine that evening.
Investigators thought that the driver may have mistaken the towpath for an exit road after they left Chez Odette.
Walter Everett, the New Hope police chief, said at the time: 'It was raining, the weather was bad. The visibility was very poor.'
A more sinister version of events was offered by New York private investigator William Callahan, who suggested Savitch had been assassinated.
He claimed her probe into the death of Italian banker Robert Calvi had placed her life in danger.
Callahan says Calvi was murdered after costing his Milan-based bank $250 million, and suggested Savitch had attracted the attention of the killer by digging into his life.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12320407/Mysterious-death-NBC-News-star-Jessica-Savitch-40-years-air-slurring-saw-accused-high-COCAINE-1983-broadcast-drowned-lovers-car-weeks-later.html