On This Day: October 14, 1987 — Baby Jessica Falls Into a Well
On October 14, 1987, eighteen-month-old Jessica McClure fell through an 8-inch opening into an abandoned well in her aunt’s backyard in Midland, Texas, and got stuck 22 feet down. It took rescue crews 58 hours to drill a parallel shaft through solid rock and pull her out alive on October 16 — a rescue that…