“Deep Pool Takes Life of Student. Companions Fail In Effort to Rescue Eugene McKinley,” Portsmouth Daily Times (10 June 1961).
This file appears in: Eugene McKinley Memorial Pool: "A Place in the Sun for Everyone”
Media coverage of McKinley's drowning helped generate support for the construction of an integrated swimming pool in Portsmouth, Ohio.
This file appears in: Eugene McKinley Memorial Pool: "A Place in the Sun for Everyone”
Eugene McKinley Memorial Pool: "A Place in the Sun for Everyone”
Portsmouth, Ohio’s only city-owned, public pool was built to memorialize the drowning death of fourteen-year-old resident Eugene McKinley, the son of George and Ruth McKinley, who lived at 1212-E…