BoxRec

Caractacus wrote:It Happened 46 years ago today.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/ ... 97459.html

I'm sure it was 71 years ago today

evrenb wrote:

Caractacus wrote:It Happened 46 years ago today.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/ ... 97459.html

I'm sure it was 71 years ago today

okay I admit it,I have a bit of delexia.
It actually happened in 1946,which was 71 years ago.
BTW Have you already seen this documentery that they refer too ?
Is it any good ?

Jack Johnson was driving a 1939 Lincoln-Zepher.
Does the documentery say what became of the wreckage after it was brought to the J.O Green Motor Company ?

I wonder what the exact route was, it is ten miles up the road.

That particular section of old Highway U.S. 1 is now part of South Main Street in downtown Franklinton N.C I believe.
The sharp curve"Cadillac Curve" is near the cemetery there.
Here is some background history to U.S. Route 1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Rout ... h_Carolina

here is some more info on the documentery and where you can watch it.
( although it looks like it still may be in production reading this)

https://www.facebook.com/JackJohnsonStory

on June 3 of 1946,Jack Johnson was in NYC at the offices of RING magazine talking to Nate Fleisher and gave one of his last if not last interview.
Nate Fleisher had promised Jack Johnson ringside tickets to the Louis vrs Conn rematch.
Johnson was driving on his way back to NYC(he had an apartment on 148th St.) from a short tour of Texas when it happened June.9.1946.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnvDS9o6TXM

Wonder if he stopped in Galveston to see family?

I don't know either,but I wish someone would do an in-depth book on what Heavyweight champions did after they lost the title.
So many if not all focus soley on what lead up to it,but the losing of it and the subsequent decline is always interesting too.
(i.e Sonny Liston)

Nile4000 wrote:Wonder if he stopped in Galveston to see family?

I wouldn't have been surprised if most of his family and relatives moved up to Chicago by 1946.
He had bought an entire family plot in the cemetery there before he died.

I think I had read somewhere where Jack Johnson's driver was inter-viewed and gave his account in one of the biography's of his
published around 1970.

from what I remember reading it was on part of Main street before it or as it entered the town.
I wonder if the crash site may have been at 0:54 of the video clip ?

Next time I am in Franklinton I will ask around. Occasionally I get my hair cut there.

dude it says "Change is Coming" there on the drone video.
maybe their planning a SuperHighway through downtown Franklionton if they havent already.
you better go see for yourself .
btw next time that you're in the Barbershop there,bring up the name of Jack Johnson !