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Image: Kathrine Switzer, Boston Marathon

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Description: Runner Kathrine Switzer attacked by race official Jock Semple while running in the 1967 Boston Marathon. Original caption: Who Said Chivalry Is Dead? ... A girl listed only as "K. Switzer of Syracuse" found herself about to be thrown out of the normally all-male Boston Marathon Wednesday when a husky companion Thomas Miller of Syracuse, threw block that tossed race official out of the running instead. Sequence shows Jock Semple, official, moving in to intercept Miss Switzer, then being bounced himself by Miller.
Title: Kathrine Switzer, Boston Marathon
Credit: https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/04/13/from-the-archives-kathrine-switzers-1967-boston-marathon-day-in-history/ Originally published in the Boston Herald and distributed by the Associated Press and published in numerous newspapers on April 20, 1967.
Author: Harry Trask
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License: Public domain
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