Long ago , Jim Beamon went into the record books in Kansas City . It offered him a way out of the spiral of violence and deprivation . his mother Naomi died of tuberculosis when he was just eight months old and , because his stepfather was in prison at the time , he ended up being raised by his maternal grandmother . He was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 1983 .
Long ago , Jim Beamon went into the record books in Kansas City . It offered him a way out of the spiral of violence and deprivation . He was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 1983 .