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.
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