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    Welsh Boxers Dai Bowen and Leslie Williams

    I've been looking for information concerning Welsh connections to the Titanic. Am seeking info on Halifax burial of Leslie Williams a native of Wales. He and his friend, David Bowen, were on their way to America to become prize fighters. They both went down with the Titanic. Anyone with...
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    Heavyweight boxing champ Jack Johnson

    Anyone see the amazing PBS documentary "Unforgivable Blackness- the story of Jack Johnson"? Johnson was America's first black heavyweight boxing champion (having won the title in 1909), and was thus the champion when Titanic went down. The heavyweight champions who preceeded Johnson would...
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