Comments on: Baby Jessica and other kids I’d forgotten about…

By: rt

rt — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 20:22:26 +0000

When I read the post that said “Monkeys with sandwiches” I stopped reading. Nobody is beating that line.

By: Jack Quick

Jack Quick — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 05:57:56 +0000

Since the miners rescue and with “Baby Jessica” in the spot light again. I just wanted to put my story out there because I can relate for I am a survivor also.

http://boyfalls50ftdesmoinesregister.blogspot.com/

By: Annette

Annette — Sun, 30 May 2010 13:47:06 +0000

Check your dictionary. “Potato” and “potatoe” are equally acceptable. If it wasn’t for the press (who apparently didn’t check their dictionaries either), it would have been a non-event.

By: Chanel

Chanel — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:33:12 +0000

I was also 4 when the Baby Jessica incident happened, and I remember the story quite clearly. They made a for-TV movie based on the story, and according to the script she was playing “hide and seek” with some older kids in the backyard. The well had a cover on it, but one of the older kids lifted the cover on it and “hid” her in there. Apparently they were afraid of getting in trouble and told the mom that she fell in.

By: SapphireChild

SapphireChild — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:36:05 +0000

To BJ -
“they can beat women in Afghanistan” etc. I know where you are coming from but please get the facts right. Its the people, not the religion. Can’t believe some people are not knowledgeable yet speaks alot..

By: Eric P

Eric P — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:52:17 +0000

Melissa, I totally miss that Rags to Riches show. It was awesome. It also helped that one of the cute ones was about my age at the time. Unlike Hayley Mills, who broke my young heart when I found out that Parent Trap and Pollyanna were made back in the 60s. *sigh* And don’t even get me started on the whole “she wasn’t real twins, just one girl playing both roles.” But Rags to Riches. Man, that takes me back.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:45:19 +0000

Although the fact that he is a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp is very true. So he still gets a lot of credit in my book.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:43:58 +0000

The story about the jewish boy being brought food by a girl on the outside was made into a movie “The boy in the striped pajamas” and a children’s book titled “Angel Girl”. The author and main character later admitted that he made the story up.

By: Ranger J

Ranger J — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:17:03 +0000

Alicia and Andy, those words with the “extra letters” you’re talking about (doughnut, flavour, colour, etc.) are the British spellings of words that are still used today in many (if not all) of the Commonwealth countries like Canada.

By: hiberya

hiberya — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:05:00 +0000

Wikipedia has an article on her. Her name was Cecelia Cichan