The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.
Jessica SavitchAlthough I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.
Jessica SavitchThe bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.
Jessica SavitchThe idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.
Jessica Savitch