Hope City, Part Four2011-06-12 · Kansas City Star
Two weeks after Immanuel Thompson joined Johnny Papin's backyard boxing club, Johnny tied gloves onto the 12-year-old's hands and pitted him in a sparring match against a boy two years older and a head taller. No jab, no skills,…
Death of Owen haunts friends and foe alike2005-09-22 · Times Online,UK
A quarter of a century has passed since Johnny Owen was ferried to a hospital in Hope Street and his grieving father wandered in a daze among the thieves and drug dealers of downtown Los Angeles.…