NyadFactCheck
In search of the truth about Diana Nyad
1929, 7 July - Swims from Battery to Statue of Liberty
“Girl Sets Swim Record” (Brooklyn Times Union)
“She’s a Streak” (New York Daily News)
“She’s Speedy” (Post-Star, Glen Falls, NY)
1929, 21 July - Becomes 4th woman to swim around Manhattan, sets record
“Breaks Record” (Muncie Morning Star, IN)
“Girl, 17, in Record Swim Around Manhattan” (New York Times)
“Girl, 17, Sets Swim Record” (Brooklyn Daily Eagle, with Lottie Schoemmell)
“Girl Swimmer Circles Manhattan in 11½ Hours” (New York Herald Tribune)
“In Record Swim Around Manhattan” (Decatur Herald)
“Lillian Garrick, 17, Sets New Record” (Binghamton Press, Binghamton, NY)
“Makes Record Swim” (Pittsburgh Press)
“New York Girl Sets New Record” (Evening News, Wilkes-Barre, PA)
“Real Water Lily”/“Why Not Take Boat?” (Daily News, New York)
Untitled (Daily Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, SD)
“Girl Swimmer’s Time Lowered” (New York Herald Tribune)
The Herald Tribune reports that Garrick’s Manhattan time, originally stated as 11 hours, 36 minutes, was actually 10 hours, 26 minutes.
1929, August - Prepping for 10-mile Wrigley marathon at Canadian National Exhibition
“Hot Diggity! Look At That Crawl” (photo from Daily News, NY)
“Swimming Season Is On—Girls Have Ambitions To Do Big Things” (photo from Omaha World-Herald, with Anne Benoit, Leah Riley, et al.)
“17-Year-old Girl Trains for Marathon Swim” (photo from Binghamton Press, Binghamton, NY)
“Mermaid Trains for Coming Swim on Lake Ontario” (photo from The Lincoln Evening Journal, NE)
“Participants in Wrigley Marathon” (photo from Detroit Free Press, with Anne Benoit, Leah Riley, et al.)
1930, July - Congratulates Leah Riley for breaking her record
“Sets Record to Lady Liberty” (Shamokin Dispatch, Shamokin, PA)
Garrick Congratulates Riley (Morning News, Wilmington, DE)
“TRUE SPORTSMANSHIP” (Muncie Sunday Star, IN)
1930, August - Manhattan race
Photos from Manhattan Race (with Garrick, Busse, and Benoit, NY Daily News)
screenshot from Manhattan race film—Benoit, Busse, Garrick
screenshot from Manhattan race film—Garrick
1931, March
Garrick to teach swimming aboard the Leviathan (Evening Sun, Hanover, PA)
1934, November
“So She Won’t Talk, Eh?” (San Francisco Examiner)
1942 - Joins the U.S. Army
“Actress Soon To Be Officer: Lillian Garrick Now WAAC Recruit” (Pasadena Post)
“WAACS Ride In A Jeep” (The News-Palladium, Benton Harbor, MI)
1943 - Recruiting, et al.
“WAC Officer Talks” Lt. Lillian Garrick gives WAC recruiting talk (Oregon Statesman, Salem, OR)
more on Garrick’s talk (Capital Journal, Salem, OR)
“Airbase Officers Will Name Miss Bombar-Dear” (Oregon Statesman)
“Rotary Hears WAC Officer” (Capital Journal)
“WAC Service Proving Value” (Oregon Statesman)
1944 - Garrick marries Lt. Roy Preston Dunann, U.S. Navy
“Former Actress Swimmer, Weds Naval Lieutenant” (Pasadena Star-News)
“Exchange Vows At Florida Ceremony” (Capital Journal)
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