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Leaper on Wilshire

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Chinn, Paul

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Photograph caption dated January 20, 1981 reads, "Former boxing champ Muhammad Ali talked a would-be leaper from a threatened suicide attempt, coaxing the distraught vet from a ninth-floor perch outside a building on Wilshire Boulevard. Ali invited the man to come home with him. 'We both cried a few tears, me because I felt sorry for him. I showed him I loved him' as a brother, Ali said."; See images 00148606-00148607 & 00148632 for all photographs in this series.
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California Digital Library

Keywords

  1. Ali, Muhammad
  2. Boxers (Sports)
  3. Buildings
  4. California
  5. Herald Examiner Collection Photographs
  6. Los Angeles
  7. Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photographs
  8. Men
  9. Suicidal Behavior
  10. United States
  11. Veterans
  12. Wilshire Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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