TONY CLARK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It was October 1987, and suddenly I was part of a story that was capturing the world's attention.</s>MARY ALICE WILLIAMS, CNN ANCHOR: This is "PRIME NEWS." We're following the climax, what we hope is the climax of one of the most compelling stories of this year. We're following it from Midland, Texas, where Jessica McClure is trapped in a well. You've been hearing the voice of CNN's Tony Clark, who has been there for three days and two nights, just as long as an 18-month-old baby girl has been wedged down in a shaft 22 feet below the earth.</s>CLARK: They were not able to get her by going down into the hole, and they didn't want to widen the hole that she was in for fear that the dirt would fall on her, or that she might slip even further.</s>CLARK: They used oil field drilling equipment to drill the parallel shaft. They had to use jack hammers, chisels, pretty much anything they could to chisel sideways and up a little bit, and that's where the delay has taken place.</s>CLARK: She had been in the well for about 58 1/2 hours when it looked like they were getting very close. And then you could see her being lifted up. She's on the backboard and the gauze taped around her. There was nothing that I could say. The pictures said it all.
CNN 20: Baby Jessica Rescued, October 16, 1987