On a hot summer afternoon back in July of 1967, just a few blocks off Route 1, Jacksonville Times- Union photographer Rocco Morabito was returning from covering another assignment when he glanced up at the sky.
There against a brilliant blue backdrop, a number of Jacksonville Electric Authority (JEA) lineman worked on electricity poles as Morabito studied them, thinking about how to frame a possible photo.
A cry rose from the crowd. A worker on one of the poles had slumped backward, held in place by his safety harness…