3 Responses to Remembering Kathy Fiscus, 1949

1. Sam Flowers says:

   March 3, 2009 at 4:22 pm

   Stan Chambers will still be around 100 years from now, and I am glad. I along with everone in L.A. were riveted to channel 5 and Stan’s coverage of that tragic event.

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2. Joyce Delp says:

   September 18, 2009 at 9:09 am

   I was 18 when this tragedy occurred, and I have never forgotten it. I don’t know how many days the rescue attempt lasted, but I remember hurrying home to get the latest news. And I remember the awful shock when we learned that Kathy was dead. I am now 78 years old, and the name Kathy Fiscus is still in my mind. Isn’t it odd…if she had lived, I would never ever have heard of her.
   I was thinking of Kathy the other day and decided to see if she could be googled. I was excited to have my sad memories confirmed.
   Does anyone know what became of the Fiscus family? Did she have siblings?
   Joyce Delp

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3. Frank L. Bordell says:

   May 4, 2011 at 7:39 pm

   On May 1, 2011, after watching the movie starring Beau Bridges and Pat Hingle about the Midland, Texas 1987 rescue of Jessica McClure, I put my thoughts to little Kathy Fiscus. I remember it very well even to this day. Being 78 years old coming up on May 8th, I was a month shy of 16 on Good Friday, April 8, 1949, the afternoon when Kathy fell into the well. They removed her tragic dead body Easter Sunday night. I might have been close to only 16 years of age, but my anger was — strange as it may seem — to the rescue attempts; better said to the failure to use what my then youthfulness thought was the best and most logical attempt. As I recollect, one or two midgets, whose size allowed them to fit into the well pipe, volunteered to be lowered down the well head first with ropes tied around their ankles and feet. Done quickly, the air might have lasted long enough for Kathy to be now approaching 66 years of age. My thoughts will always be the same.

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