{"id":4962,"date":"2014-06-03T22:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T03:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4962"},"modified":"2014-06-03T22:00:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T03:00:11","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-june-3-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4962","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour for June 3, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Uncovered Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Kathy<\/a>

Kathy Fiscus<\/p><\/div>\n

On Friday, April 8, 1949, three-year-old Kathryn Fiscus was playing with her\u00a0sister and cousin in a field in San Marino, California when she accidentally\u00a0fell down an abandoned water well. Ironically, Kathy’s father worked for the\u00a0company that had drilled the well nearly fifty years before, and he had\u00a0recently testified before the state legislature in favor of a proposition to\u00a0require abandoned wells to be sealed.<\/p>\n

Rescue efforts began immediately and were carried live on KTLA radio and TV;\u00a0this was a pivotal moment in the still-new medium of television. Ten\u00a0thousand people came to the site of the accident, and thousands more\u00a0followed the story at home.\u00a0Crews from many nearby towns arrived with cranes, bulldozers and drills, and\u00a0Hollywood studios provided floodlights. It took two days to dig down one\u00a0hundred feet, and on Sunday night, a doctor was lowered into the shaft. Soon\u00a0an announcement was made to the gathered crowd: “Kathy is dead and\u00a0apparently has been dead since she was last heard speaking.” Medical\u00a0examiners later determined that Kathy had died of lack of oxygen shortly after her fall.<\/p>\n

The well, now covered, is in what is now the upper field of San Marino High\u00a0School. Kathy Fiscus is buried in Bonita, California, and her marker reads,\u00a0“One little girl who united the world for a moment.”<\/p>\n

Culled from: Wikipedia
\nSubmitted by: Aimee<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s newsreel footage of the rescue attempt:
\n[tube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mVORS57RMoI[\/tube]<\/p>\n

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