Arthur Jackson (sport shooter)
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 129 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5142-8422-1
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Charles Jackson (born May 15, 1918) is an American former competitive sport shooter. In an international career spanning eight years, he captured numerous medals across three Summer Olympic Games, three ISSF World Shooting Championships, and two editions of the Pan American Games. He began shooting in the seventh grade and joined the rifle team at Brooklyn Technical High School in 1934. He competed in local and regional tournaments prior to World War II, during which he worked at the Sperry Corporation and later served as a bombardier in the Pacific Theater of Operations. His first international tournament was the 1948 Summer Olympics and his last was the 1956 edition, at which point he began a career in public service with the Central Intelligence Agency in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. He stopped competing at the international level in 1957 and retired from the CIA at the end of 1974. After several years as an...