Three Heroes

Duration: 0:22:00

Year Published: 1969

Creator: Indiana University Audio-Visual Center | National Educational Television: Distributor | WGBH-TV | WGBH

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Presents three Carnegie Medal winners who saved another human life and recounts the heroic deeds that entitled them to this award. Explains that Joseph Arcaris, a lion tamer, rescued a man trapped in a pit with five untrained lions; Lew Gauthier, a fireman, entered a burning house to save a child and helped retrieve a man trapped below the house; and John Peter Cooney, a cross-country runner, pulled a drowning man from a quarry.

Complete Record: , Presents three Carnegie Medal winners who saved another human life and recounts the heroic deeds that entitled them to this award. Explains that Joseph Arcaris, a lion tamer, rescued a man trapped in a pit with five untrained lions; Lew Gauthier, a fireman, entered a burning house to save a child and helped retrieve a man trapped below the house; and John Peter Cooney, a cross-country runner, pulled a drowning man from a quarry.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.