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Published July 01 2009

Freefalling


Crowds gathered along the riverbank to watch Don Foster dive off the Spiral Bridge into the Mississippi River. For several years in the early 1930s, Foster’s dives were one of the main acts during the city’s Fourth of July celebrations.