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Jan 19, 2020 · Five years ago today, John Smith fell through the ice on Lake Saint Louise in Lake St. Louis in 2015. It’s a day John said he will mostly spend alone. “I’m more solo that day...
- Anne Allred
- Why Were John Smith and His Friends on The Ice?
- Was John Smith Really Under Water For 15 minutes?
- Does John Smith Remember Anything from The Day He Drowned?
- Had Joyce Smith Been Talking to Her Son Seconds Before He Went Through The Ice?
- How Long Did John Smith Have No Pulse?
- Is Actress Chrissy Metz (who Plays Joyce) A Believer in The Power of Prayer?
- Did Joyce and The Pastor Get Into An argument?
- Did The Doctors Believe That John Wouldn't Survive The First Night?
- How Long Was It Before John Smith Was Taken Off The Ventilator After Drowning?
- What Became of John Smith and His Family After His Recovery?
"You don't expect to be in that situation," John Smith said. "We all thought that we were just going to have fun, to celebrate. It's a holiday. We'd just won a basketball game, so we were just going to have a good time, but we weren't expecting that [with] one wrong move, we would be all one second away from dying." The photo shown below of then 14...
Yes. Our Breakthroughfact check confirms that John Smith was under water for approximately 15 minutes before rescuers, including Tommy Shine, found him on the rocky bottom of the lake and pulled him to the surface. John was in the frigid water for a total of more than 20 minutes.
Yes. "I remember the screams," Smith says. "'Call 911! I don't wanna die!'" He remembers being under water and coming up above the ice. He recalls fighting for his life and the burning sensation of the frigid water and the ice cutting his skin as he tried to climb out." He says that he tried to push ice to his friends for them to grab on to so they...
Yes. In the film, they are just texting, but in real life, they talked on the phone after first texting. "I'd talked to him moments before he went into the water," Joyce Smith said. "In fact, he basically hung up the phone from me and the ice cracked under [him], he went under. So that was around 11:30 a.m. They called me at 11:52 a.m. to tell me."...
In researching the Breakthrough true story, we learned that John Smith was without a pulse for about an hour. He'd spent 15 minutes under water and another 40-plus minutes without a heartbeat after he was pulled from the lake. It was during that time that he was technically dead. "No spontaneous respirations. No heart tones. In essence, he was cold...
Yes. "It's helped me so much in my life," she told Inside Edition, "and I think it's the reason why I'm standing here, you know, at this incredible premiere."
No. The real Pastor Jason Noble admitted that this scene is fictional. "We've actually never been in an argument," he told KSDK News. He said that though the argument never happened, it did represent what they were going through as a church at that time. "He's like one of my kids," added Joyce.
Yes. Doctor Garrett (Dennis Haysbert) tells the family this in the movie and it lines up with the Breakthrough true story. "Doctors told us that John wasn't going to live through the night," says Joyce Smith. Though his heartbeat had returned, John only had brainstem function and his blood oxygen levels were critical. Like in the movie, Joyce would...
His condition continued to improve, and on the tenth day, he was removed from the ventilator and was able to breath on his own. He was talking about three hours after that. "I'm thinking to myself, 'They're wrong. They're wrong. He has more than brainstem function, because he is looking around the room and he knows who people are. You know, God is ...
Joyce wrote a book about her son John Smith's drowning and resurrection, titled The Impossible, which became the basis for the Breakthroughmovie. As for John, he hopes to one day become a pastor.
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Apr 12, 2019 · John Smith was just 14 years old when he fell through an icy Missouri lake in 2015. After being rescued from the frigid waters, John was rushed to a local hospital, where, with no pulse...
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Apr 17, 2019 · Watch: "Breakthrough" Movie Inspired By John Smith's Real-Life Miracle. The morning of January 19, 2015 began for Joyce Smith like any other. Her 14-year-old son John, adopted by Joyce and her ...
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Nov 7, 2017 · Fourteen year old John Smith fell through ice and was in forty degree water for a half hour, totally submerged for half of that time. Finally rescued, he had no heartbeat for an hour, until he did. But then there was no brain activity and his organs were failing.
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Apr 18, 2019 · John Smith (center) talks with some of the first responders on Wednesday, March 20, 2019, who were responsible for saving his life four years ago when he fell through the ice on Lake Sainte...
Apr 10, 2019 · On Jan. 19, 2015, Smith, then 14, was playing with two friends out on the frozen Lake Sainte Louise in St. Charles, Mo., when they fell through thin ice into the frigid water below. While his...
