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Title
You can't beat this rap
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator
Chinn, Paul
Date Created and/or Issued
1987
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Photograph caption dated April 9, 1987 reads, "Magic Johnson leads Lakers teammates (from left) Billy Thompson, Mychal Thompson, Byron Scott and James Worthy in an anti-drug 'rap' song yesterday at Inglewood High School. The players, whose routine was choreographed by Worthy's wife, urged grade-school kids at an assembly to refuse drugs when they are offered. It was the team's fourth annual visit."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00084679
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box Johnson, Earvin - "Magic Johnson"
CARL0002890150
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/26232
Subject
Johnson, Earvin,--1959-
Thompson, William,--1963-
Thompson, Mychal
Scott, Byron A
Los Angeles Lakers (Basketball team)
Inglewood High School (Inglewood, Calif.)
Basketball players--United States
Basketball--United States
High schools--California--Inglewood
Inglewood (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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