NBC News Digest with Jessica Savitch

Legendary newswoman Jessica Savitch was apparently high on drugs - slurring and stumbling over words - the night she read the NBC News Digest that appeared during commercial breaks on October 3rd, 1983, which may have gotten her in trouble with the network.

In any event, that Monday night would be her last television appearance; 20 days later she drowned in a car accident.
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