Names in the News - May 28, 1986
Richard Kirwan Ferguson, a native of Canada who finished third in the “Miracle Mile” in 1954, has died of cancer at the Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage. Ferguson was 54. Ferguson, who died Saturday, finished behind Roger Bannister and John Landy in the mile run during a track meet 32 years ago at Vancouver.
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