Miss America 1987

Miss America 1987, the 60th Anniversary Miss America pageant, was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 13, 1986, on NBC Network.

Although an entry representing the city of Memphis had been victorious in the pageant of 1947, Kellye Cash became the first woman with the title Miss Tennessee to win the crown. She is a great-niece of the singer Johnny Cash. Third place finisher Dawn Elizabeth Smith is the sister of a murder victim by Larry Gene Bell, who would be executed for killing her sister.