Audio Snapshot: A Life-Saving Class

NPR | By Michael Lee

Published February 7, 2005 at 12:00 AM EST

Producer Michael Lee of KUT in Austin, Texas, brings us this audio portrait of Spike Gillespie, a woman who learned a lot more than lifesaving at her CPR class.

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