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Kathy Fiscus: A Tragedy That Transfixed the Nation

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In Kathy Fiscus: A Tragedy that Transfixed the Nation historian William Deverell tells the heartbreaking story of a girl trapped in a well—a story that transfixed the nation in what would become the first live TV spectacle.

Kathy Fiscus tells the story of the first live, breaking-news TV spectacle in American history. At dusk on a spring evening in 1949, a three-year old girl fell down an abandoned well shaft in the backyard of her family’s home in Southern California. Across more than two f...