Annie was the first CPR doll ever made. Michael Jackson references her in his song Smooth Criminal with the lyrics, Annie, are you okay? We heard about Annie while working on our last episode about the Freedom House paramedics in Pittsburgh.
When a toymaker and a doctor teamed up to make the world’s first CPR doll, they decided to make the doll’s face look like one specific woman – a woman who they thought had drowned. People call her l’Inconnue de la Seine, or the Unknown Woman of the Seine.