Bascom Johnson: A Life in Public Health

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #029: Meredith Colket, Bascom Johnson, Edward Bushnell, John Cregan & James Juvenal – Olympiad II in Paris - The 1900 “Zany Games”, part 3

Bascom Johnson was favored to win the pole vault but, as a Sabbatarian, refused to compete on Sunday.  He went on to a life in Public Health who specialized in limiting venereal disease and eliminating sex trafficking.