An editor at Free Press eventually tracked her down, and a book deal followed Price would tell her own story, this time under her own name. Four weeks later, the story went national: Price was interviewed on NPR's Morning Edition (still under the AJ pseudonym). Within hours, UC Irvine was besieged with inquiries. Shortly thereafter, the UC Irvine press office peddled the story to The Orange County Register-and Price's world was turned upside down.The newspaper article, which identified her only as "AJ," appeared on March 13, 2006. In February 2006, their article, "A Case of Unusual Autobiographical Remembering," appeared in the journal Neurocase. Finally, McGaugh and company were ready to share what they had found. He tells me he was skeptical at first, but it didn't take long for him to become convinced that Price was something special he soon introduced her to two of his collaborators, Larry Cahill and Elizabeth Parker.The three researchers interviewed Price many times over the next five years, but they kept the story to themselves.
Her road to stardom started in June 2000 (Monday, June 5, to be exact), when she stumbled upon a Web page for James McGaugh, a UC Irvine neuroscientist who specializes in learning and memory, and decided to send him an email describing her unusual ability to recall the past. Her friends and family knew her memory was remarkable, but nobody in the scientific community did. Price stands her ground, and not 60 seconds later, a producer breaks in: "The book is wrong." Price is right after all!Until recently, no one had ever heard of Jill Price. No, Sawyer says, she has made a mistake according to the book that 20/20's producers were using as a source, Princess Grace died on September 10. Sawyer laughs nervously and tries gently to right her guest: "September 10, 1982." Price misunderstands, thinking she's being prompted to identify another event-the possibility that she's being corrected apparently doesn't occur to her. She immediately answers, "September 14, 1982-that was the first day I started 12th grade." For once, it seems that the memory lady has blown it. She not only gives the date for the final episode of MASH but describes the weather that day.The most remarkable moment comes when Sawyer asks Price when Princess Grace died. When did CBS air the "Who shot JR?" episode of Dallas? When was All in the Family's baby episode shown? And so on. Diane Sawyer asks Price, an avid television viewer, to identify certain significant dates in broadcast history.
It was pissing me off." Diane Sawyer interviews Jill Price on ABC News.I first saw Price last May in a YouTube clip of her on 20/20. Well, June 19, 2002, was not a Saturday! It was a Wednesday. So they kept going back to Saturday, June 19, 2002.
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And he was freaking out." Soon, Price, generally a gentle soul, has moved on to a rant about a TV program she just saw: "It was about an event that happened in 2002. Right over there, she says, is a car wash: "I was talking to the guy there last summer, and I was telling him about the first time I ever went to the car wash-on August 30, 1978. She laughs, says no, pulls slightly at her blond hair, and starts up again. All this comes pouring out so fast, I wonder aloud whether Price has had too much coffee.
In the space of two minutes, she tells me about the former motel lodge with a bear in front, the Courtyard hotel that used to be a Hilton, and a bowling alley-since replaced by a Marshalls-where a Nicolas Cage film was shot. Price, who is 43, has spent most of her life here in Los Angeles, and she remembers everything. Photo: Bryce Duffy It's a Monday afternoon in November, and I'm driving down Ventura Boulevard with Jill Price, the woman who can't forget. Researchers had never found a subject with a perfect memory - then along came Jill Price.
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