“Oxygen”
Jack Corn
May 24, 1965
Jack Corn Collection
Vanderbilt University Special Collections
At the scene of a mine disaster in Brimstone Mountain in Scott County, Tennessee, on May 24, 1965, Scott County Sherriff Jack Laxton administers oxygen to rescue worker Edker Hunnicutt. Hunnicutt was overcome by the poisonous gas. His father, George Hunnicutt, waits anxiously.