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63splitwindow

(2,657 posts)
Wed Jul 6, 2016, 06:18 PM Jul 2016

Don the Con just said he loves boxing promoter Don King because he "beat the system"

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"King was born in Cleveland, Ohio, where he attended school and graduated from John Adams High in 1951.[1] After dropping out of Kent State University, he ran an illegal bookmaking operation out of the basement of a record store on Kinsman Road, and was charged for killing two men in incidents 13 years apart. The first was determined to be justifiable homicide after it was found that King shot Hillary Brown in the back and killed him while he was attempting to rob one of King's gambling houses.[2] King was convicted of second degree murder for the second killing in 1966 after he was found guilty of stomping to death an employee, Sam Garrett, who owed him $600.[2] The judge reduced King's conviction to nonnegligent manslaughter for which King served just under four years in prison.[3] King was later pardoned for the crime in 1983 by Ohio Governor Jim Rhodes, with letters from Jesse Jackson, Coretta Scott King, George Voinovich, Art Modell, and Gabe Paul, among others, being written in support of King.[4]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_King_(boxing_promoter)
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Don the Con just said he loves boxing promoter Don King because he "beat the system" (Original Post) 63splitwindow Jul 2016 OP
Did you mean to post this in the Lounge? Ptah Jul 2016 #1
No, meant it in general. 63splitwindow Jul 2016 #2

Ptah

(34,047 posts)
1. Did you mean to post this in the Lounge?
Wed Jul 6, 2016, 06:25 PM
Jul 2016
 

63splitwindow

(2,657 posts)
2. No, meant it in general.
Wed Jul 6, 2016, 06:32 PM
Jul 2016
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