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John D. Radison
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1980-03-14
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Missouri
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Mount Hope Cemetery Mausoleum and Crematory, Lemay, St. Louis County, Missouri, USA
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John D. Radison, of St. Louis, MO, was born in 1927. He was a former Golden Gloves champion, former Amateur Athletic Union champion, international referee and judge, Amateur Athletic Union official, Amateur International Boxing Association, and promoter of amateur sports.
John was a Referee/Judge in the 1980 U.S. Olympic Boxing Team that was killed in a plane crash near Warsaw, Poland, on March 14, 1980. That day, the team was traveling from New York to Warsaw to compete in two dual events in Cracow and Katowice when the Polish IL-62 jetliner went down just half a mile from Warsaw's Okecie Airport. Eighty-seven people, all passengers and crew, including 22 members (14 boxers and 8 staff members) of the US boxing team, died.