WBAL-TV 11 News reporter Rob Roblin, who has covered Special Olympics Maryland and the Polar Bear Plunge and got to know Myrick well, wrote on Facebook, "Hearing about the passing of Jimmy Myrick Jr. just breaks my heart. To me, Jimmy's whole life was and still is all about love and teaching. He jus
David Myrick's great-uncle Jimmy Myrick was the apprentice wireless operator at Cape Race, which received the distress signal from the Titanic and let the rest of the world know via telegraph. Myrick is involved in a re-enactment of the receiving of the signal that will take place on the anniversary