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Baby Jessica with Blair Braverman

You're Wrong About

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The Pulitzer Prize Winner, Skeets Miller

This was apparently a trend, at least in the country music industry, that when there was a national tragedy, you would like to do a little song about it. This is from a New York Times article, not quite 40 years before Jessica McClure fell into an abandoned well. Three year old Kathy Fiskas did the same thing and became trapped 95 feet underground. 132 volunteers worked for two days, while more than 5,000 people came to watch. It strikes me that we've sort of been assuming like a carnival atmosphere. Like they're there for the show, but it's hard to know without being there.

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