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Image of Olympic Sprint Champion Jim Hines receiving a key to the city from Oakland Mayor John Reading. Hines stands center wearing a suit and tie and two medallions around his neck. Mayor Reading, also in a suit and tie, stands to his left holding the medallions and looking at Hines' sister Camille who stands to Hines right. The three are standing in front of a window with drapes and mini blinds. Tribune caption attached to back of photo reads, "OLYMPIC SPRINT CHAMPION JIM HINES HAS HIS DAY IN OAKLAND BEFORE DEPARTING FOR MIAMI WHERE HE'LL GET A SHOT AT PRO FOOTBALL WITH THE DOLPHINS. Jim accepts key to the city from Mayor John Reading (left); receives a track suit from Eddie Cooper of McClymonds High and, with his sister, Camille, visits Tribune Editor and Publisher William F. Knowland." Photograph is cut off on left side and marked with cropping registration marks on the right side. The woodwork in the left side of the photo has been lightened with white paint to better contrast with Camille's hair for reproduction purposes.

Jim HinesFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Hines (5/3/2007)James Ray ("Jim") Hines (born September 10, 1946) is an American athlete who held the 100 m world record for 15 years.Born in Dumas, Arkansas, Hines was raised in Oakland, California and graduated from McClymonds High School in 1964. He was a baseball player in his younger years, until he was spotted by a track coach as a running talent and became a sprinter. At the 1968 US national championships in Sacramento, California, Hines became the first man to break the ten second barrier in the 100 meter race, setting 9.9 (manual timing), with a real time of 10.03 - two other athletes, Ronnie Ray Smith behind him (real time 10.13) and Charles Greene on the other semi-final (real time 10.09) having got the same official clocking . Hines attended Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas. He was a member of the Texas Southern University Tigers track team.A few months later, at the Olympics themselves, Hines ﾋ a black athlete ﾋ found himself in a tense situation, with racial riots going on in his home country and a threat of a boycott by the black athletes of the US team who were disturbed by the controversial admittance of apartheid South Africa to the games and revelations linking the head of the IOC to a racist and anti-semitic country club. Hines reached the 100 m final, and won it. There was some controversy over his exact time, but eventually his time of 9.95 was recognised as a new world record (electronically timed and therefore considered quicker than his 9.9). The race was also significant for being the first all-black final in Olympic history. Hines helped break another World Record when he and his teammates sprinted to the 4 x 100 m relay gold at the same Games.After these successes, Hines signed up with the Miami Dolphins, an American football team, but never played. For years he worked with inner-city youth in Houston, as well as on oil rigs outside the city.Hines' world record remained unbeaten for an exceptionally long time, until Calvin Smith ran 9.93 in 1983.

Used: Oakland Tribune