page_title: Rescue of Jessica McClure
section_title: Aftermath
hierarchical_section_title: Rescue of Jessica McClure / Aftermath
caption_attribution_description: English: President Bush holds Jessica McClure during the Midland Community Spirit Award Presentation in the Roosevelt Room at the White House. The award was established by the town of Midland, TX and awarded to Sioux City, IA in recognition of the community's response to the crash of United Airlines Flight 232 on July 19, 1989
context_page_description: Jessica McClure Morales fell into a well in her aunt's backyard in Midland, Texas on October 14, 1987, at the age of 18 months. Between that day and October 16, rescuers worked for 56 hours to free her from the 8-inch well casing 22 feet below the ground. The story gained worldwide attention, and later became the subject of a 1989 ABC television movie Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure.
context_section_description: Following McClure's rescue on October 16, 1987, surgeons had to amputate a toe due to gangrene from loss of circulation while she was in the well. She also has a scar on her forehead where her head rubbed against the well casing. She had 15 surgeries over the years and has no first-hand memory of the event. 
  Her parents divorced in 1990.
  Paramedic Robert O'Donnell, battling posttraumatic stress disorder as a result of the arduous rescue effort and struggling to cope with the abrupt decline of the fame and recognition that had been lavished on him following his heroic act, died by suicide in 1995.
  In May 2004 McClure graduated from Greenwood High School, in a small community near Midland. On January 28, 2006, she married Daniel Morales at Church of Christ in Notrees, Texas, about 40 miles (64 km) from Midland. They met at a day care center where she worked with his sister. They have two children, a boy born in 2007 and a girl born in 2009.
  When McClure turned 25 on March 26, 2011, she received a trust fund of donations worth up to $800,000. Her father, Chip, said she had discussed setting up a trust fund for the college education of her children. It had earlier helped in the purchase of her present home, which is less than 2 miles (3.2 km) from the site of the incident.
caption: President George H. W. Bush meeting McClure at the White House in 1989
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