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What Really Happened?

Andrew Jenks

Society & Culture

4.5 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In 1981, on a 9th floor building and in front of hundreds of people, Muhammad Ali talked a 21- year-old out of committing suicide. The story ran the following evening in front of 36 million people on the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. But with new sources and information, Jenks questions if this was a concocted event, devised by Ali himself. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So this all started from a post I saw on a Twitter handle that I'll never forget.
0:06.6	It said, today is the anniversary of the day Muhammad Ali saved a guy from committing
0:10.4	suicide.
0:11.4	Ali did what I thought, hoping that I'd be prevented from spiraling into some sort of rabbit hole.
0:17.9	I did a quick Google search.
0:19.1	I couldn't believe what I was reading.
0:20.8	Muhammad Ali, an athlete who is bigger than any sports star in history, saved a Vietnam
0:25.8	bet from suicide.
0:27.5	A guy threatening from a Los Angeles office building that he would plummet nine floors
0:31.4	to his death.
0:33.2	But the twist during my rogue investigation, which is now in its third year, has gone from
0:38.2	being an awesome, straightforward story to a strange and convoluted one involving a
0:43.0	long list of very different characters.
0:45.8	Ronald Reagan is a governor and then president, a reputable LAPD sergeant looking for missing
0:51.0	records.
0:52.0	An atabloid magazine that claimed bigfoot wasn't just real, but keeping a lumberjack
0:57.4	as a love slave.
0:59.8	This is a story that has left me far more curious than when I even first read that tweet.
1:05.4	And the belief that one of six things happened.
1:08.4	One, Ali saved a man from committing suicide.
1:11.6	Two, Ali broke into national news coverage during a presidential inauguration.
1:16.5	Three, Ali wanted to prove to the world that he was still the greatest.
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