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A utility pole worker gives artificial respiration to a co-worker after electrical shock, the man survived. (1967)
While electricity powers our homes and pretty much every modern appliance that doesn’t mean that electricity is our friend. This photo of utility worker J.D. Thompson giving mouth-to-mouth to his co-worker Randall G. Champion was taken on July 17, 1967 by Rocco Morabito and became known as “Kiss of Life.” According to Thompson, the day this photo was taken was like any other until his co-worker grabbed a live wire on accident. He told NBC:
He got a hold of the hot wire with his four fingers and [the electrical current] came out his – I think it was the left foot. And it blew a hole where it came out his foot.
Morabito, a newspaper photographer at the time, just happened to be in the area and had his camera on him. It’s a good thing he did because he won a Pulitzer Prize for his work.
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