| LC control no. | n 79101555 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | O'Neil, Kitty |
| Variant(s) | Hambleton, Kitty O'Neil |
| Located | Eureka (S.D.) |
| Birth date | 1948? 1946-03-24 |
| Death date | 2018-11-02 |
| Place of birth | Corpus Christi (Tex.) |
| Place of death | Eureka (S.D.) |
| Profession or occupation | Drag racers Stunt performers Daredevils |
| Found in | Thacher, A. M. Fastest woman on earth, c1980 (subj.) CIP data sheet (Kitty O'Neil, drag racer, movie stunt woman, holder of female land speed record) Biog. index., 1976/77 (O'Neil, Kitty, 1948?- ) Sat. eve. post, v. 249, p. 42, etc., 1977 (Kitty O'Neil, wife of Duffy Hambleton; b. Corpus Christi, Tex.; grad. of Univ. of Tex., Austin) Her Kitty, a story of triumph in a soundless world, 1981: t.p. (Kitty O'Neil) CIP galley (b. 3/24/46) Washington post WWW site, viewed Nov. 5, 2018 (Kitty O'Neil; 72 when she died Nov. 2 [2018]; stunt artist and daredevil; raced motorcycles and speed boats, dove off hotel rooftops, leaped from helicopters, set herself on fire, water skied at more than 100 mph and earned the title "world's fastest woman," reaching speeds of about 600 mph while piloting a rocket car across a dried lake bed in southeastern Oregon; from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, she stood in for actresses including Lindsay Wagner of "The Bionic Woman," dangled out of a sixth-story window for an episode of the television detective show "Baretta," braved rising waters on a sinking jet plane in the movie thriller "Airport '77," was immolated during a graveyard seance in "September 30, 1955,”"and rolled, crashed or raced cars for films such as "The Blues Brothers" and "Smokey and the Bandit II"; Kitty Linn O'Neil was born in Corpus Christi, Tex., on March 24, 1946; moved to Eureka, S.D., in the early 1990s; death in Eureka) |
| Associated language | eng |
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