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Transcript: Profile: Tennis player Althea Gibson dies
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- September 29, 2003
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BOB EDWARDS
Morning Edition (NPR)
09-29-2003
Profile: Tennis player Althea Gibson dies
Host: BOB EDWARDS
Time: 10:00-11:00 AM
BOB EDWARDS, host:
Two-time US national and Wimbledon winner Althea Gibson died yesterday. She'll be remembered as a pioneer athlete and a role model. Althea Gibson was born in South Carolina but raised in Harlem and New York. She excelled in sports from an early age and admitted she preferred sports to school. She talked to me in a 1986 interview about her beginnings in tennis.
Ms. ALTHEA GIBSON: (From 1986 interview) Actually, it all started with paddle tennis in the play streets of New York City sponsored by the Police Athletic League, two bats and a sponge ...
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