Through Jessica, the nation had briefly been transported back to a time when anything seemed possible with enough prayer and hard, selfless, backbreaking work. In a messy and maddening world, savor the memory. And the lesson of her rescue, as she sees it, applies decades later. Write to Olivia B. Waxman at olivia. Rescuer rushes baby rescued from fall into a well where lay for three days before she was rescued, Oct.
By Olivia B. Get our History Newsletter. Put today's news in context and see highlights from the archives. Please enter a valid email address. Please attempt to sign up again. Despite her parent's drama, Baby Jessica's childhood remained shielded and pretty normal. It wasn't until she was five that she learned what happened to her after watching an episode of Rescue and asking her step mum who the little girl in the well was.
Eight years after the accident, Robert O'Donnell, the paramedic who shimmied down the shaft to rescue her, died by suicide. After being hailed a hero, Robert enjoyed instant fame but he found it hard to return to normal life after it all disappeared.
After his death, his brother told Spokesman , "Ever since that Jessica deal, his life fell apart". In , aged 15, she told Ladies Home Journal, that the incident "bored her" while also disclosing for the first time that she lives with rheumatoid arthritis. In , at the age of 19, she married Daniel Morales and the couple had two children, Simon and Sheyenne, two years apart.
By the time she was 25 and had access to the trust fund created for her all those years ago, her youngest was the same age she was when she fell down the well. It was love at first sight. About a month into our relationship we were already engaged," she told People TV. The family used the money to buy a modest house just three kilometres from the accident site, but they lost a lot of the money in the stock market dive in In , it was reported by People that Jessica was working as an assistant to a special education teacher at an elementary school in Midland.
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They were there within three minutes, but it felt like a lifetime. Baby Jessica remained trapped in the well, 22 feet below ground and only 8 inches wide, for the next 58 hours, while frantic rescue crews attempted to save her life and the entire nation watched transfixed as the drama played out on television.
Because she had fallen so deep into the earth -- beneath layers of rock harder than granite -- and because the diameter of the well was so narrow, the rescue mission was extraordinarily difficult. Using a large rat-hole rig, a machine normally used to plant telephone poles in the ground, rescue teams drilled a inch wide, foot deep hole parallel to the well.
They then began the difficult process of drilling a horizontal tunnel between the two wells about two feet below where Baby Jessica was trapped. In the meantime, rescue workers pumped oxygen into the well and attempted to maintain constant communication with Baby Jessica, who moaned, wailed and for a while even sang nursery rhymes to pass the time. At another point, when a jackhammer started up, she didn't say any words but used kind of a huffy little voice.
You could tell it was an angry voice. I would say 80 percent of the time she was either crying or making some kind of noise we could hear. When we weren't calling words of encouragement, we'd tell her to sing for us.
I'll never forget her singing 'Winnie the Pooh. The entire rescue ordeal was covered live on CNN, the nation's first -- and at that time only -- hour news network. For only the second time in American history the first being the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger a year earlier the entire nation watched literally around-the-clock as a dramatic news story unfolded live on television.
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