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Moment boxing legend Muhammad Ali saved suicidal man threatening to jump
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| Old CBS News Report
Posted on 06/05/2016 6:43:49 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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The old CBS news story film clip is at link.
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posted on
06/05/2016 6:43:49 PM PDT
by
Rebelbase
To: Rebelbase
I don’t care if he dodged the draft, I still love and admire the guy.
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posted on
06/05/2016 6:53:07 PM PDT
by
BobL
To: Rebelbase
I remember seeing an old clip of the most hated man in America, John D Rockefeller tipping a caddy 10 cents. Wasn’t he a great man!
Also saw a clip of a jobless man praising Al Capone for his soup kitchen! Wasn’t he great man!
To: Rebelbase
That could never happen today. We are too civilized to let anyone but a professional talk to him. It was a better world.
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posted on
06/05/2016 7:00:21 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
This is really complicated, so try to keep up, but most people are not 100% bad, or 100% good.
As for that dime, that was at a time when $5 a day was an amazing wage and you could actually get something with it back then.
And it looks like Ali did a wonderful thing that day.
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posted on
06/05/2016 7:07:26 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
To: Rebelbase
The baying crowd watching from the ground had chillingly urged the "distraught" man to jump :-)
To: Rebelbase
A good man has gone on to a better life... RIP Ali...
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posted on
06/05/2016 7:10:53 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
("DHS Quietly Moving, Releasing Vanloads of Illegal Aliens Away from Border"-where's ABC, CBS, CNN???)
To: Rebelbase
According to the report: The man Ali talked out of jumping was then brought to the psychiatric ward of a veterans hospital. Ali said he would visit him there.
To: DesertRhino
As for that dime, that was at a time when $5 a day was an amazing wage and you could actually get something with it back then. It was all a part of a publicity stunt campaign to improve Rockfeller's image. He gave them out to everyone even Firestone.
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posted on
06/05/2016 7:23:48 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
To: Rebelbase
Draft Dodger and American Hater and a Coward.
To: BobL
I dont care if he dodged the draft He didn't. He refused to go and spent 2 years in prison for it. Many other ran to Canada or Sweden but Ali took his medicine like a man.
While I disagree with his decision, I respect him for it.
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posted on
06/05/2016 7:25:32 PM PDT
by
sailor76
(GO TRUMP!!! Make America Great Again!)
To: Rebelbase
This happened 35 years ago. Does anyone know what became of the man he saved?
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posted on
06/05/2016 7:32:13 PM PDT
by
Buttons12
( It Can't Happen Here -- Sinclair Lewis.)
To: Rebelbase
Among other things, Ali financed a research and treatment center for Parkinson's Disease based in Phoenix.
To: sailor76
Okay nOOb, tells us what 2 years it was that Ali spent in prison for dodging the draft.
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posted on
06/05/2016 7:34:47 PM PDT
by
bobby.223
(Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
True story, I broke into Sen Jay Rockefeller’s car for him once. A staffer locked the keys in his car at a Big Brothers/Big Sisters event. I had a work truck and some wire to pop the lock. I got a thank you, I’ll give him that.
To: Rebelbase
Dude was badasss and a wonderful human being...
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posted on
06/05/2016 7:50:49 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
To: bobby.223
I was wrong. Apparently he stayed out of prison while on appeal.
That said, you have the manners of an idiot.
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posted on
06/05/2016 7:51:15 PM PDT
by
sailor76
(GO TRUMP!!! Make America Great Again!)
To: sailor76
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posted on
06/05/2016 7:53:21 PM PDT
by
bobby.223
(Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
To: sailor76
Classy of him - thanks for the info. I told you guys that I like him, a lot.
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posted on
06/05/2016 7:54:44 PM PDT
by
BobL
To: BobL
Actually I was wrong, he didn’t serve time, but he did man up.
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posted on
06/05/2016 8:00:52 PM PDT
by
sailor76
(GO TRUMP!!! Make America Great Again!)
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