On October 14, 1987, eighteen-month-old Jessica McClure fell into a well, igniting a 56-hour sprint to free her. Firemen, policemen, roofing contractors, and nosy neighbors worked together, improvising their way to the story’s happy conclusion: when paramedics hoisted Baby Jessica into the limelight. Also on the scene was fourth-grader Lance Lunsford. Later in life as a reporter, Lunsford was writing a retrospective on the rescue when he realized that much of the story had not yet been told.