English: "Kiss of Life", photograph of utility lineman Jimmy Thompson giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to fellow worker R. G. Champion after Champion was knocked unconscious by an electric shock. Winner of the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography.
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1977, inclusive, without a copyright notice. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart as well as a detailed definition of "publication" for public art. Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (50 p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 p.m.a.), Mexico (100 p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.
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Uploaded a work by w:Rocco Morabito (photographer) from ''The Florida Times-Union'', "[https://www.jacksonville.com/news/20170716/50-years-later-kiss-of-life-photo-still-stops-people-in-their-tracks 50 years later, ‘Kiss of Life’ photo still stops people in their tracks]", July 16, 2017. Originally published in the ''Jacksonville Journal'' in 1967. with UploadWizard
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