Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Well, Well, Well....

1980s pop culture figure arrested for domestic violence.

I've talked about missing white woman syndrome. It is a part of the junk food media's obsession with finding missing white women while ignoring everyone else.

Savannah Guthrie, the NBC News host has went three months without finding her mother, Nancy. It is likely she has passed away. She is an elderly lady who needed medical support to survive. The junk food media has slowed down on the coverage because they're now obsessed with President Donald J. Trump doing this war thing.

Yeah, the war with Iran has affected the global economy. We all gonna pay for this.

Anyway, I am an 80s baby. I grew up watching an event in West Texas.

A toddler falls into an abandoned mine well.

Baby Jessica.

The junk food media was obsessed with this incident.

Living in Midland, Texas, Jessica McClure Morales continues to function as normal person.

Jessica fell into a well in her aunt's backyard in Midland, Texas, on October 14, 1987, at the age of 18 months. 

Over the next 58 hours, rescuers worked to free her from the 8 in (20 cm) well casing, about 22 ft (7 m) below grade.

The story garnered national attention, with the big three television networks broadcasting McClure's rescue live. A 1989 ABC television movie was made about the events: Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure.

All big three television networks broke into their primetime programming to report McClure's rescue. ABC interrupted the sitcom I Married Dora, with Ted Koppel presiding the coverage, while CBS' Dan Rather cut off an hour episode of Beauty and the Beast (which was resumed in its entirety after the special report). NBC broke into Rags to Riches, with Connie Chung presenting the news coverage.

Then President Ronald Reagan said, "Everybody in America became godmothers and godfathers of Jessica while this was going on."

News of the successful rescue was shared across the nation in real-time. In Minnesota, the University of Minnesota Gopher football team was playing against the University of Indiana at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. A message was displayed on the Jumbotron to announce the successful rescue of “Baby Jessica,” to which the crowd began cheering. The Gophers lost the game 17-18.

In 1988, McClure and her parents appeared on Live with Regis and Kathie Lee to talk about the incident.

The 58 hour rescue of Jessica McClure Morales was big. The junk food media, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush gave this major coverage.

A photograph of McClure's rescue by Scott Shaw of the Odessa American received the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography.

Morales is best known as "Baby Jessica," who was rescued after she fell into a 22-foot well in 1987, when she was 18 months old. The world was riveted as rescuers worked for nearly 60 hours to free her.

Morales, now 40 years old, was arrested at her home in Texas on Saturday and charged with assault causing bodily injury involving family violence, according to records cited by multiple outlets.

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Records show she posted bond and was released from the Midland County Detention Center. Further details about the incident are not yet available.

The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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