Word: clay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BLACK IS BEST, by Jack Olsen. A formidable biography that disassembles Heavyweight Champion Cassius Clay and then carefully spreads the many pieces on the gym floor...
Garrison turned to the subject of "Clem Bertrand." In a brief note in the Warren Commission exhibits, a "Clay Bertrand" was named as the man who phoned an attorney on the day after the assassination and asked him to defend Oswald. Was Bertrand in the court room? Garrison asked Russo. Without a word, the witness strode melodramatically to Clay Shaw and held his right hand above Shaw's head. Shaw did not look...
Even in the somber setting of a courtroom, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison's spectacular investigation of the assassination of John F. Kennedy was barely distinguishable from a circus sideshow. In a hearing to determine whether retired Businessman Clay Shaw, 54, should be tried on charges of conspiring with Lee Harvey Oswald and others to murder the late President, "Big Jim" produced only two prosecution witnesses. One was a confessed heroin addict. The other was a young insurance salesman whose impeccable clothing concealed a mind in considerable disarray and whose memory had to be jogged by means...
...Clay threw literally nothing in the first two rounds. In the third he connected with a right to Folley's jaw, and in the fifth he fired a long series of left jabs in the challenger's face. That was his finest round. The sixth was again monotonous and the seventh dull until the four-punch explosion and knockout...
...champion's seventh title defense in 13 months, and Clay claimed he was as busy as Joe Louis at his prime. To show if he was as good as Louis, the TV station ran some old films after the fight of the Brown Bomber destroying big fat Tony Galento...