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Jerome Walters

Olympic track and field athlete (1930–1998)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ6182967 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jerome Walters (9 April 1930 – 5 March 1998) was an American middle distance runner who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

“Jerome Walters” enters the record as olympic track and field athlete (1930–1998). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jerome, Walters and Olympic can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1930, 1998, 1956—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1930-04-09. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jerome, Walters and Olympic.
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Why this record matters

“Jerome Walters” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Jerome, Walters and Olympic provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6182967. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1930, 1998 and 1956.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jerome Walters” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.