Lunchbox Lecture: How Thane Baker Won an Olympic Medal Wearing Borrowed Shoes
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Tuesday, Jun 17, 2025 12pm - 1pm
Location
Nebraska History Museum
131 Centennial Mall N.
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This month’s Lunchbox Lecture features Thane Baker and Catherine Baker Nicholson, who will share Thane Baker’s experience running, with borrowed shoes and socks, in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics at the Nebraska History Museum on June 17 from 12 PM to 1 PM.
Baker is the oldest living United States Olympic medalist in track and the second oldest male track medalist in the world. Nicholson wrote a book about her father’s experiences in the 1952 Olympics called Running in Borrowed Shoes: Thane Baker and the 1952 Summer Games.
Event admission is free. LNKTV will record the lecture and make it available to the public.
*Special thanks to the Nebraska State Historical Society Foundation for providing funding for the recording of this event.
