Providential readiness of spirit (colour litho)

Providential readiness of mind. Leaving the car by the side of the road, Jerry Ballard from Little Rock (Arkansas), drives away with his wife for a moment. The car in which his three children were, suddenly moves and ends up in the lake. Ballard throws himself into the water, with a fist breaks the glass of the locked door and pulls out the two girls; he puts them on the roof of the car that sinks more and more, then, while with one hand he continues to hold them, with the The other one grabs the boy. The rescue took place in the space of seconds; shortly after the machine disappeared between the waves. Illustration for Courier Sunday, 24 February 1957.