Word: morabito
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...community of Jacksonville, Fla., he was a legend. To the rest of the world, Rocco Morabito, who died on April 5 at 88, was the creator of The Kiss of Life, the first spot-news photograph ever to win a Pulitzer Prize...
...staff photographer for the now defunct Jacksonville Journal, Morabito, then a 27-year veteran of the paper, was driving back to the newsroom in July 1967 after covering a railroad strike when he passed a group of utility workers by the side of the road, shouting about an unconscious, electrocuted co-worker dangling from a pole...
...Morabito used his car's two-way radio to notify emergency services and then did what he did best: shot a picture. The result--a black-and-white rendering of J.D. Thompson resuscitating and eventually saving the life of apprentice lineman R.G. Champion, 29--was reproduced in newspapers around the world...
...Morabito, it was work, a job that he did for nearly two more decades before retiring in 1982. Rocco, as he preferred to be called, returned to his job in 1988 for one final assignment: to photograph the removal of the Journal's sign from its offices when the paper closed for good. No photo award this time, but it did make the front page...