How Jim McKay's armpits and a transatlantic race fueled the first U.S. broadcast of the Summer Olympics. The 1960 Rome Games made their way into American living rooms via a harried journey.

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American Otis Davis narrowly beat Germany's Carl Kaufmann in the final of the 400m sprint at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Both men broken the Olympic and world records, coming in at 44.9 seconds.

While millions of people focus attention on the Summer Olympics unfolding in Beijing, bestselling author David Maraniss casts a spotlight on events that took place nearly five decades ago with his ...

FILE - In this April 7, 1960 file photo, a general view of the swimming pool that will be used during the 1960 Rome Summer Olympic Games. They were the Summer Games that ushered in the Olympics as ...

Just in time for the 2008 Summer Olympics, David Maraniss' "Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World" looks back at the 1960 Olympic Games, the Rome-based event that became ...

Cantello recalled in a 2017 interview with historian Austin Duckworth, who was researching espionage at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome at the time. “I said, ‘Sure, I’ll take a drink.’” ...

Otis Davis, a two-time Olympic gold medallist and a trailblazer in American track and field, died at the age of 92. Davis made history at the 1960 Rome Olympics, breaking barriers on and off the ...