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Along the Watchtower, page 2...: The day I defeated Joe Frazier

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Along the Watchtower, page 2. More true accounts, oddball events, and state history from Florida Panhandle reporter Ken Brooks. Tuesday, May 27, 2008. The day I defeated Joe Frazier. We'll call this tale- absolutely true, by the way- "A Brush With History, Complete with Twist Ending.". Our story begins in September 1980. I was visiting a friend in Jacksonville, where boxer Joe Frazier was going to be signing autographs at a local mall. Naturally, we made plans to attend. 50 Years at Ringside. When I hand...

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Along the Watchtower, page 2...: The last public appearance of Al Capone

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Along the Watchtower, page 2. More true accounts, oddball events, and state history from Florida Panhandle reporter Ken Brooks. Monday, May 26, 2008. The last public appearance of Al Capone. He cut quite a charismatic figure, even in those days. Al Capone bounded up the steps of Miami's federal courthouse. Flashbulbs popped. Reporters shouted questions. By-standers reached out to pat his broad back- "I touched him! One of them shouted. When a reporter for the Miami. The once-mighty Capone- an invalid?

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Along the Watchtower, page 2...: Nov.22, 1958: Gators against Seminoles...the football game that nearly sparked an act of Congress!

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Along the Watchtower, page 2. More true accounts, oddball events, and state history from Florida Panhandle reporter Ken Brooks. Tuesday, May 27, 2008. Nov22, 1958: Gators against Seminoles.the football game that nearly sparked an act of Congress! Is there a more exciting moment in football than the opening kickoff of a game between the University of Florida Gators and the Florida State Seminoles? For fans in the Sunshine State, it's the ultimate moment of truth. That day finally arrived in 1954 when, for...

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Along the Watchtower, page 2...: The Olympic star and the heavyweight champion

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Along the Watchtower, page 2. More true accounts, oddball events, and state history from Florida Panhandle reporter Ken Brooks. Monday, May 26, 2008. The Olympic star and the heavyweight champion. Here's a quiz for you: What do Jesse Owens and Primo Carnera have in common? If you answered, "Both were world champions in the 1930s," you're only partly correct. Sure, Owens won four gold medals for track at the 1936 Olympics in Munich. And yes, Italy's Carnera held boxing's heavyweight crown in 1933. I was w...

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Along the Watchtower, page 2...: Christmas 1989: The year that mullet rained from the sky

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Along the Watchtower, page 2. More true accounts, oddball events, and state history from Florida Panhandle reporter Ken Brooks. Monday, May 26, 2008. Christmas 1989: The year that mullet rained from the sky. Locals who dream of a White Christmas may as well face it: This is Bay County, and we're no more likely to have snow on the ground for Christmas than we are for mullet to fall from the sky. The next day, mullet fell from the sky. Really. (More on that intruiging subject later). Then it rained mullet.

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Along the Watchtower, page 2...: Babe Ruth's love affair with Florida

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Along the Watchtower, page 2. More true accounts, oddball events, and state history from Florida Panhandle reporter Ken Brooks. Monday, May 26, 2008. Babe Ruth's love affair with Florida. No wonder Babe Ruth loved Florida. Here was a kid raised on the unforgiving streets of Baltimore, ten years old and already labeled "incorrigible" for stealing, drinking, and gambling. But for a preternatural talent for baseball, Ruth would have likely never have escaped those mean streets. Babe loved to fish, often ret...

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Along the Watchtower, page 2...: Peace at last for family twice-cursed

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Along the Watchtower, page 2. More true accounts, oddball events, and state history from Florida Panhandle reporter Ken Brooks. Monday, May 26, 2008. Peace at last for family twice-cursed. Was it coincidence, or in the stars? Random happenstance, or preordained by a destiny man can scarcely comprehend? The first person to die in an airplane crash in Bay County was the son of the first county resident killed in an automobile accident. We discovered that Rod had no phone and spent most of his time cruising...