San Antonio couple hopeful to travel again one year after the coronavirus crashed their cruise
SAN ANTONIO โ Wednesday marks one year since a San Antonio couple was allowed to return home after a period of quarantine at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. The order to stay on the military base came after the couple and other U.S. citizens were pulled from a cruise ship where some passengers tested positive for COVID-19. The couple was told to stay inside their cabin on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship as it sat off Japanโs coast. Some of those passengers, including Don and Natty, were able to board a plane back to the United States. Don remembers when he was finally able to go back to his home in San Antonio.
AP Was There: Don Schollander wins 4 gold medals in swimming
EDITORS NOTE With the Tokyo Olympics postponed for a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, The Associated Press is looking back at the history of Summer Games. It looks at the four gold medals won in swimming by American Don Schollander a record at the time and three gold and a silver by fellow American Sharon Stouder. Pair Big Fish At Tokyo-By JIM BECKER-Don Schollander and Sharon Stouder made quite a swimming team all by themselves. They won seven gold medals and one silver between them in the Tokyo Olympics, and each wound up by swimming on a winning relay team in the windup Sunday night. Schollander, 18, from Oswego, Ore., is the first man to win four gold medals in Olympic swimming.
One of the subjects of the hit Netflix documentary โTiger Kingโ is from San Antonio
SAN ANTONIO โ Hey, all you cool cats and kittens, have you seen the Netflix documentary โTiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness?" Itโs the story of an eccentric zoo owner who goes by the name Joe Exotic, and it turns out one of the main subjects of the documentary is from San Antonio. If you havenโt seen โTiger Kingโ then stop reading here because there are spoilers ahead. โTiger Kingโ: Where are they now? For more Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin content you can listen to Robert Moorโs Wondery Podcast โJoe Exotic: Tiger King."
From quarantined cruise ship to isolation at Lackland: SA native gives first-hand account of coronavirus evacuation
A โvery slowโ process has brought a local couple once quarantined on the Diamond Princess cruise ship back to San Antonio, but they havenโt made it home. Feds: 7 cruise ship passengers that landed at Lackland tested positive for coronavirus, sent to NebraskaThe number of Americans evacuated from Japan. Don and his wife, Natty, were evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship. For the departing Americans, the evacuation cut short a 14-day quarantine that began aboard the cruise ship Feb. 5. The Department of Defense said JBSA-Lacklandโs coronavirus quarantine zone will remain available to patients through mid-March.