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Title
Mourning Jimmy Jacobs
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator
Mullen, Mike
Date Created and/or Issued
1988
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
Heavyweight champion Mike Tyson walks arm-in-arm with former light heavyweight champ Jose Torres at the funeral for Jimmy Jacobs, Tyson's co-manager, at Hillside Memorial Park. Jacobs was remembered by Torres as a man "with an iron will to win." Photo dated: March 26, 1988.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00052937
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box Jacobs, Jimmy
CARL0000058548
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/20584
Subject
Tyson, Mike,--1966-
Torres, Jose
Hillside Memorial Park (Culver City, Calif.)
Boxers (Sports)--United States
Boxing managers--United States
Cemeteries--California--Culver City
Funeral rites and ceremonies--California--Culver City
Culver City (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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