Glenn Cunningham

Glenn Verniss Cunningham was born August 4, 1909. He was raised in Elkhart, Kansas but born in Atlanta, Kansas. The legs of Glenn were badly burnt, when on day in school someone put gasoline instead of kerosene in a can. The doctors said that he would never be able to walk again, but he was able to walk again with treatment, he then was the first to break the four minute mile in 1954. He died in March 10, 1988 at age 78.