Willard Victory Recalled On April 5, 1915, He Knocked Out Jack Johnson at Cuban Track: Home Edition
Willard Victory Recalled On April 5, 1915, He Knocked Out Jack Johnson at Cuban Track: Home Edition
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Los Angeles, Calif: Los Angeles Times Communications LLC
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On April 5, 1915, in a prize ring built on a Cuban racetrack, a Kansas cowboy named Jess Willard knocked out the first world-famous black athlete, Jack Johnson. Johnson, 37, the champion, was on the lam, a man without a country. Sentenced to federal prison in 1913 on a trumped-up violation of the Mann Act, Johnson had fled the United States for Eur...
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Willard Victory Recalled On April 5, 1915, He Knocked Out Jack Johnson at Cuban Track: Home Edition
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TN_cdi_proquest_newspapers_293191437
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0458-3035
