The ten best boxing films2014-01-24 · Telegraph.co.uk
Boxing and cinema have enjoyed a long relationship. The first boxing match to be filmed was way back in 1894, when early American producer and Thomas Edison protégé William KL Dickson filmed a contest between Jack Cushing and Mike Leonard, aka …
Backers making another run at pardon for boxer2011-02-24 · TMCnet
John McCain, both Republicans, plan to reintroduce a congressional resolution urging a pardon for boxer Jack Johnson. Another supporter, Rep. Charles Rangel, D?NY, said he will talk to President Barack Obama's new chief of staff, William Daley,…
Johnson deserves a pardon2009-04-07 · Individual.com
William Faulkner, the South's best writer, said it best: 'The past isn't dead. It isn't even past.' More than 60 years after former heavyweight boxing champ Jack Johnson was pronounced dead at St. Agnes Hospital in Raleigh after a car crash, he and it…