It took 58 hours — with no food or water — before she was finally brought back to the surface, amid cheers from rescuers and CNN viewers across the country. Monday marks the year anniversary of the rescue. The couple has two children, Simon, 10 and Sheyenne, 8. Rescuers worked round the clock digging a hole parallel to the well Jessica was trapped in. Oxygen and heat were pumped into the well, and a TV photographers microphone was dropped down the well to listen to Jessica.
At one point it picked her voice up as she sang 'Winnie the Pooh'. Finally, hours after she fell, baby Jessica was hoisted out of the ground to great cheers. The event was carried live on local and national television. Midland news crews remember the event as one that united the world.
We got phone calls from Australia and England. Jessica is now a junior in high school in Midland. Her divorced parents Chip McClure and Cissy Porter have granted only one interview in the last five years. They have not released a picture of Jessica to the media in seven years. The family says they want everyone to know she's a healthy, active and loving girl..
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.
Aged 34, her Facebook lists that as her former job, with her profile now reading "stay at home mum". She tries to keep a low profile in the media, but on the 30th anniversary of her rescue, three years ago, she revealed she didn't remember the accident that made her famous all those years ago.
I had God on my side that day. She wants to use the event and spectacle to teach her kids to "always be humble," to never forget where they come from and to not take life for granted. Her dad remembered the terrifying event just last year writing on Facebook: "32 years ago today, my daughter Baby Jessica, captured the world's attention and everyone's hearts as she quietly sang Winnie the Pooh from 22' below the surface.
She was so close we could almost touch her, so close that we could hear her muffled cries unaided and with heartbreaking clarity through a single microphone lowered down that well. Leave a comment. Video via People TV.
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. Dubbed "everybody's baby," Baby Jessica tugged at heartstrings of millions of viewers; thousands of strangers sent her family flowers, toys, cards and money.
Donations, totaling in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, were set aside in a trust fund for her to inherit at the age of In fact, many point to CNN's coverage of Baby Jessica's rescue as a turning point in the history of news media, the genesis of the era of the hour news cycle. Finally, on the evening of October 16, , Baby Jessica was lifted safely out of the well. The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of her rescue, snapped by Scott Shaw, shows Baby Jessica cradled in the arms of a paramedic, her head wrapped in white gauze, her arms caked in dirt, her bleary eyes just barely open.
Over the next few years, Baby Jessica underwent 15 surgeries to treat all of the complications from her three days trapped without food or water inside the well. She ultimately did regain full health. Chronic but controllable rheumatoid arthritis, a missing small toe on her right foot and a prominent diagonal scar across her forehead are the only permanent physical signs of her ordeal. Once she grew older, Baby Jessica could not remember anything about her three days trapped in a well in her aunt's backyard or her lengthy recovery.
She did not even learn her own story until she was five years old and saw an episode of Rescue , recounting the story of a baby girl's rescue from a well three years earlier. Moved to tears by the story, she asked her stepmother her parents had since divorced what the girl's name was and learned it was her. Ever since those dramatic three days in , Morales has lived an extraordinarily ordinary life.
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