“I have been looking for the gun in the house and have not found it,” she said. “I found a couple other revolvers, but I have not found that gun.”
She called Bud’s son, Mike. He didn’t know where it was. Susan asked him what kind of gun it was.
“And Mike said, ‘I just know it was big because Jim would shoot it right next to me,’” Susan said.
Kayla was wearing a Jim Marshall jersey and a necklace with a charm in the shape of a track cleat given to Jim when he set the Ohio State record in the discus in the late ‘50s. She caressed the charm as she spoke about what Thursday meant to her.
“The video clip they played today was really touching to see just how many people he touched and changed and motivated,” Kayla said. “I needed to hear that, to see that, to get that push from him again. My [great] grandpa was really inspiring.”