Jessica Savitch (2/1/47 - 10/23/83) was an ambitious young newswoman being groomed for stardom (and, according to some detractors, showing signs of maxing out her Peter Principle early on--David Brinkley called her "the dumbest woman I have ever met"--but she was very easy on the eyes) in the latter 1970s. NBC was advancing her rapidly, but her behavior on and off the set was becoming a tad erratic, most notoriously when she had to go on air unexpectedly about three weeks before her death, and delivered her lines to the Teeming Millions apparently somewhat the worse for exotic alkaloids. After dining out one evening later that month she and her date (the latter driving) took a wrong turn in inclement weather and drove into a canal, drowning them both--hence "anchorwoman."

Maybe you'd have to have been there...

cordially,