Worker in iconic photo kissing Statue of Liberty recalls death-defying perch: ‘One slip and it was over’

Fuente: New York Post

Anthony Soraci was just 29 years old when he inched out into a scaffolding cross beam to plant a kiss on the head of the Statue of Liberty during a massive 1984 restoration project, posing for a photo so instantly iconic it earned him two separate shout-outs from Ronald Reagan. “I’d been in the trades since I was 15. I started out doing roofing, then went into siding.