When the fire bell rang at 2:15 p.m. Friday, Feb. 9, 1906, the two horses assigned to South Hannibal’s Union Street fire station started jumping with anticipation.
us. tone marks, cnn, midland, texas. we constantly create heroes and then we destroy them. we take celebrities and adore them until we don t anymore and then they tear them apart. these days there is no joy in mid lapd. i have no rites. that s the feeling i have. the rights to this case is in a documentary drama version of the rescue. robert o donnell was a legitimate bona fide hero and everybody loved him. and then all those cameras went away. these people were heroes until they proved themselves to be human and then people felt they were greedy and fame seeking.
midland had suffered in the years before jessica fell down that well. it was the oil bust, the economy was completely trashed. people had lost everything. and this little girl fell down this well and all of a sudden, it gave an entire town something to rally around. they are west texans, short on money but long on heart. robert o donnell was a firefighter. o donnell, o apost fee he was tall and thin and he could physically get down there in the tunnel. they didn t know what position she was in for quite
some time. i believe it was robert o donnell. he felt inside the shaft and he could tell there s only one leg dangling. so she s in the shaft with her foot next to her head kind of in a scissor position. he needed more room to articulate and get in there. one of the things they would do is drop a microphone down into the well to make sure that she was ok and at times like that, everybody had to be very, very quiet. they could hear she was in there sipping winnie the poo. winnie the pooh i cried a lot, especially when she was singing. there was a point i kept thinking, i don t know that she s going to make it.
amputated. letters came addressed to jessica, mid lapd, texas. vice president george bush dropped in to check on the progress of jessica mcclure. sitting on her mother s shoulders, she watched as the folks of mid lapd came out to celebrate her rescue, and celebrate, they did. people stopped robert o donnell on the street. they bought him meals. they wanted to fly him to hollywood. he was on oprah. after a short wagon ride out, 19-month-old jessica mcclure did just what folks in mid lapd have been praying for. she walked. [ cheers and applause ] and the well she fell in is now capped with the words for jessica with love from all of