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The CBS television network broadcast “Silent Victory: The Story of Kitty O’Neil” on the evening of Jun. 17, 1979.Kitty Linn O’Neil was born in Corpus Christi, Texas on Mar. 24, 1946. She was still in diapers when simultaneously stricken with measles, mumps and what may have been smallpox. Her mother, a full-blooded Cherokee, saved the infant’s life by placing her in a bathtub o...