Primary Sources: The 1960s: Sports

Newspapers are an excellent place to find primary source articles about sports!

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Published: 1964

Usage: Public Domain

Universal Newsreels via The Internet Archive

https://archive.org/details/1964-10-15_US_Dominates_Tokyo_Games

The winners of the 1960 Olympic medals for light heavyweight boxing on the winners' podium at Rome: Cassius Clay (now Muhammad Ali) (C), gold; Zbigniew Pietrzykowski of Poland (R), silver; and Giulio Saraudi (Italy) and Anthony Madiga (Australia), joint bronze.

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In 1967, the American athlete Kathrine Switzer, became the first woman to run the Boston Marathon.

At the time, athletics officials believed women were incapable of running more than a mile and a half.