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it's been and it presents a conversation across from today is to be named caches marcellus clay jr in his business was prize fighting as a fighter he became in my opinion and certainly in his own the rates at the age of twenty five now he calls himself mohammed alley and he's unemployed is a fine stylist got ripped away by various boxing commissions in the name of patriotism he's been sentenced to five years in prison for refusing induction the united states army eight years ago he stood on the podium in rome an american flag boy in the breeze the star
spangled banner being played he was given a gold medal at an olympic champion people thought here's a kid with a bright future and he was known as the so called credit to his rights he had talent in the ring and he had maybe more talent outside he loved value he loved putting on the nation with a great put on that he was the greatest he maybe was the greatest poet since robert frost at least he had more of his poetry published saying it more must go in for things like that but then the day after he became champion he turned off a lot of the country by revealing that he was a convert two religious sect known popularly as the black muslims and formerly as the nation of islam and that antagonized a lot of the american people so not his principal role is as emotional minister is out of varied career an exciting bizarre celebrated career and now perhaps a discouraging career or is it discouraging right now there's five year sentence
force health problems mr of the most of the creatures give speeches and enjoy this month marks an authentic not to the box to this or what was your feeling as a correct oh yes not at all they could come up with options that people now you know a few years and it's thought about jail what it might mean he talked about people than in jail five years and no well
we'll talk about black people actually do for foreigners were about silver foil leave them all leaving elijah muhammad is the messenger of the no greater than that so tencent tulip time comes i'll just have to go boys in vietnam went down for what they believe in a king get only on foot down for what they believed so i'll just done to free font people ten thousand miles away slow this episode so that so called negroes could be freaks selected a violent image they can look up to that didn't sell amount to more people like oh yes there's a report that your manager herbert said all else can then everything i do is of my income and doesn't want to the report came out that report was only a paper about two
weeks ago now are going this is real table even on the strong recovery which we can put through him and let's take a moment now to work in america with government even more work and we're strong and shakes up a lot of people see in a strong also makes a little going to grow strong facing the same problems when this week for more from our people that never had a big black man stood up and identify with a struggle of its people a thousand percent was taken given what white girl obama bruno oh mullah omar show on broadway usually given in to watch the show and i will tell you that you can talk to him they are too big to be with their own people legal marijuana grown catfish council had been proud to become great in boxing to become the greatest wonder heavily of great evocative live on the first one that they have to take a ton of carbon is to all of the great white and blue american title and the first one that they chat to make the
world believe that one the champion an art if you're in jail five years well i don't know i'm not really one of the box in the mormons the spiritual works that elijah muhammad preachers preach and warlock forget about sports is not an ongoing arrest makes no more they make a vicious eelam now and fish will only for a reason this keeps me from the ambitious film don't miss that i have nothing else to gain upbeat the best german at all for the best candidate and off putting on the estimate that awful to tell you a nice big old world champion a youth champion twice olympic gold medal won out defendant kind of mankind's predictive the romans omar points total points in point fashion it would fall into those and i cannot go no fault in sports and for some nothing i'd say
i'm the oldest black man that black people can now say heads the champion of like a lot of samos out this undefeated still joyous came back he led people down he gets the jewelry was a black pride and they get him the help from the forest wants to stay in this is a conflict now you're saying mr is there a conflict between that and be a price well yes we'll don't believe it so easy don't believe in sports network we don't consider box in the violent just spoiled or another he'll always has a fierce repair that we have refried the rights and tensions to be the man appointed and on that christmas now hurting investors first because of a larger show is in the fight but if i give five pm the reason would be opposed to get out get this
enormous way that i have to make guesses a monthly payment of bodies which helps two hundred miles but it's better to have a thousand us justice calls them up and then other thing is that alimony to the wife because we're about to purchase more effective fight the foibles reasons this box himself aka bob tomorrow i'm just going to mention the box three years ago we were going on the way from boston big read your great bus with the brow otis five x was writing again you said that's why he's get the back of the bus which we do and then i just you know you had all this on the mind all the pressure you it would be put on the dracula masks was sorry in one of your tracks and we knew we had a great time up there and people who know you and you've got a lot of criticism in the press people live with you a new you i knew what kind of person you were on you enjoyed the people being allowed to
another audience celebrity you enjoyed that you miss that oh no as i said i can't go to like and global box and there's no one i could be so could get more present in a box that will always still around people of libya for six of them traveling with him in a day in the city are good people we forgot just left for college ball mit mit university was saying we have a white audience yesterday were our goal we look at fairleigh dickinson a new york's ego the polk salad university the nation's universities and all can stay in or more in state college it's going to be with the only a syllable not boxer didn't take nothing away from his fast lane smith's people and always go here now that we've got a necktie and i can tell you will sparks will slowly great moral issue may even the ones fighting they can tell so i have slot
last fall but also arcane just as questionable at escape this is a rally in that like we're on the boss when you leave you didn't know it just got to not do it first to multiple recalls know until i went in first amendment says this was even forced li says a lot of sales and it's easy to say if you're following martin luther king people like that in iran into violence in their role in that image this is there's something about this and a feature that much to push out of dishes or why bravo keep you love theres a possibility of no milkshake you won't go back to the good people spit at it and i'm sure so most people don't take me to the vacancy and i'll say well you don't have to be sick mentally to walk forty seven the places where you see
the agency long watered down a lot of the moment we're going somewhere to our awesome as we speak but tell us about the most of ours i said that the one you'll remember this very well sonny liston the big oak there's a column savage quarter put to you you became champion of the world everybody thought this is a refreshing i always wondered what was instrumental that was trained violinist and sons to solicit mom and didn't raise no fool example you must do so the next day when everybody was saying the best
thing is a refreshing your most of the people that's been lots of debts and you know now as a political analysts hollande it on the greek is it cannot be beat i am pretty economically yells boy morgan summits and talent to the will of god along and islam all means peace entice a mission and we don't believe and force themselves onto wants to know why why hasn't grown up is a skinny girls to keep them in common the court's liberals were made to love that image of the appraisals need some liberals made me over and saw think it made people think that we are a group that's right but we are white white people we know what we know twelve people for example if i take a broken this room now i would be for a rattlesnake you cannot beat you did not dissipate i
don't hate rattlesnakes artillery died of that just know what came after the natives laden the table tray and he wouldn't sleep because i know that it might bring me so now i don't think that we can ever go on that we should point out whites and blacks cannot get business and they chose this gets worse every day the latest government fact very committed to say that things are becoming obese or just to choose that as black and white as we didn't have the separation ellen goodman is the best comic white women and get gone clothes all accomplished another shoot black targets and santa's thinking goes that issue and make walls just the good grows and in the legacy of mayor daley chicago i think some that are helicopters us not just with the words voting machine guns on foley so you know people are hearing this
why do this i got a really low but i can tell him about the report detailed him as the john on to their long time except don't can join on to the true religion which is islam join on to the teachers would just told us about all the lies rubber domes black man preacher the troop of black people clean up your neighbor listen to the song for yourself quote the separate only won one of the reasons one is giving a beautiful name on early which is connected me would pass some of fifty six countries are fifty six and of limitation this is well why should we go to japan to fight because the house to keep the tone of the cicada houston told jurors that if we let this man leave you might not come back because he has six hundred million miles that they can make him a millionaire fugitive so this was done to me or use to try to get a loaf of whites when they didn't whites american goals set with canes and egypt lebanon
syria pakistan indonesia saudi arabia all this has told me a knowledge of myself told me to love and respect among people to marry and moan women all negroes where obviously not uncomfortable ones at home mom and comfortable all right here right now no comparable country which you assign where fargo which you're not going to count for richard boucher getting sober bristle farms will swell i don't want it tells true they're like ours was that truth details we were detailed true toss intelligent lot of the weird thing about say what i like what you say when he says that a negro should and fourth floors open wide needless and white people should have all of the navel as it was one the group homes that were sellouts tunisian make sense of prison don't want to push yourself owning was is a myth and the same rights and the people do think
it will go where they can decide what they want to help communities just don't make some not so called liberal guardian and boston legal and they'll have to go somewhere else a horrible conditions in chicago in a terrible position so this is all the whirling teaches that these land and know when they can produce and build homes schools factories and hospitals are still suffer the meantime waxman and white and to some land says we help build america to be fifth of the richest kids on the planet vulcan all american was to help maintain the poor government we're not sure we have some lamb well we can build it constrained because of doctor's integral to lawyers physicians mechanics plumbers electricians why not can we all go somewhere now until the future of our children such as other people watch just we just remain on their egos and employees why not can we go in a job that isn't as he wants someone in the united states not realize wanted to disclose the gut
told he'll not be that this land should be here are elsewhere just like all people people can be free and independent one out hope even before you think they feed themselves not people to be free if they don't call themselves liberals of twenty two million people elijah muhammad teaches us we don't make use trains to have two million people not to expect twenty million people if you why people call to grocery stores to mark weaver stopped stores all unite moms and hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland throughout the country cannot fool me taken into supermarkets in his restaurants cheese bill and all countries that colleges universities is already a worldwide known nationally in americas on tv and washington chose to millions because we call mana spears ask and temples all over the country and he is the black man for black people to fall is not just as a fun job is not just a house in a white neighbourhood this is another scene in a letter to fight the quality which whiteness though you may say what will they say we won't open housing they still might get another building got
belts week in the house with what people and their medium and negroes when a ride on the best transportation up from that white people adults dubin that he read write a front seat assignments on chat about her rip and make rules that will need a white man restaurant in this net steel balcony that same sort of reality the middle of five the quality of the white man is widely quoted white man's doctor be equally quick to manage at some airports he's traced a egyptian television comes in water plants in east and not if he has landed has only has been with the white men gain just isn't repeated abilities country and work and three hundred days of wraparound so that why not delay activating it that they are not good we were like fool trying to be fallow because the most powerful military controllers we look like bull's runnin down a railroad track enrollment i'm a local mortuary the mice a little bit brave bull portable commenting would
betray all he will have as his monument is a symbol of discussion of tracks the weekend the powerful is the man who makes the bullets and makes the dance we'd like to look up going out on the road she would damage that they have a neighbor had a machine cannot take couples to quell year's round of ammunition in a gun hideout we would have a chance because oh we don't control our food after two three days we have the hungry for us to be violent because america would have to have super weapon in america and we don't have the fact his mother if the dignity of them out of the actual weapons and we would get the weapons we would have to get rid of a virtual you're not going to give on the girls let me shoot you with some lighter talk salary was still hungry with wraparound i don't agree with him on the mainland of the king were all black people are fighting for freedom just a quality about him that approaches a watermelon field not one man fights in their own one man fights in the land one man's fight on top of a lot of women fight in the submarine underwater one bank on sunday the secret service announced
that they all think the same companies they say the osce north of the knees and people but they have different approaches negroes have different approaches that everyone men believe in integrating one day we all be white the same about why people of twenty years one believed education and politics will solve wobbly schulman and brian of the country saw one man we've integration a psalm and we believe separation some worked ourselves are so we're not to talk about these bills signed on to big empty but we just don't agree with that approach to life but we all thought the arm in the us and syria in that way and one day we hope that they will also recommend truly be lied to muhammad and will also in the moon's wants what do you think will happen he like who are you one day it will happen to do well when he'd that we will be in we will be in heaven will be an area of merkel will be destroyed and this will be all girls with america will go down with america but when
he does we will be free is work of the awful and we have a feast just around because we don't have a lot of more years tell us about mr the fight to save the mall's is that to your data not all god's prophet that they accomplished their mission is a message i'm not here to tell us what else was happening is the message he's the messenger law to the so called vagrants what about your own life i'm melissa block but when i saw a home fix it up nice and beautiful eighteen you know tell us about a couple of them will try to get that have
plagued gaza to slow travel so much every day and in certain cities and i'm always movement always have calls travel to do so privately and i have of course like an actress in kansas city or that make coastlines wichita of video work and now would give me a good deal on one more upbeat republican lisa try your first though there's been so many stories that you unlike joseph you point to a thousand hours on one hand i was in the city recently a new tax of the forum conversely is that our youngest inaugural not allowed to work here now in america are not allowed to leave america lot like joyous identify thirty years you know in that title fights
and out of those manic title fights marker was two million dollars makeover after that which are now not after that that's before taxes yet asked them a match was played out up and was paid to paint amanda popcorn mandated that it might cost two million and out of two million the tan white men and black men mobile they made a deal with the government that a mob that i mean i'm about to build which may be to do what the government or they would give the government ninety percent of all my errands before i get a college almost low to keep me from all been brought they say ninety percent of my two million dollars went to the american government so that when it's in the top ten percent out of two million to live on that i have to be about fifty thousand to get rid of my first taste and then all that really cost me money to live so the money's going and only yo i don't know why people still confuse a white negro box of old world it will wind farms are depleting fond of america as pro
american samoa mccaslin trip some things to say one is that powerful marketing it bro you know liberal boxer though you can't use our connections which is the group that she wanted to leave them in a friendly manner or we're a country they want to remove the price for so you go back to live elephant seal mother alice always that two days ago a symbol of times didn't last time we'll still small and the people who sold small fans a reasonable still stand on the same corner ain't no nothing's hanging around the same places when you get out and travel a knowledge and get what he acknowledged was the one spending a veteran world cup didn't like me at the top of the wise men like a newspaperman and all these tv shows an endless make sure was unintelligible to go by people
watched towns your skates dave deptula today ahmed get out the women do you got it get ready because they're cleaning out your sail to take you or le trio to reveal surreal what out they have the right to have to know why she's backing up a few things and all left some money out they had to go back to show that side a lot of money that i make after taxes to make money like make up fifteen hundred dollar speaking engagement give the
globe more than thirty percent they're not take less level mount put into banks costs banks might go pro quo they might get robbed i just take a moment and i think it had a counter without a new bill russell i said name two years ago i said it's it's a shame that this boy and such an intractable point five fighters may wind up twelve chosen to settle it shows that you don't understand he said that's why we admire him so it just really and i have been talking about they spend money on white women they said was they were planned poor golf four thousand miles of old and they were going to make millions and millions of women were not taxes and they would not end about why they won't speak the white americans completely close all the doors on the amount of work in american america will stop writer mark pryor
and i don't think i carry yes and tomorrow i can go back to get the money to follow only did no i'm awfully afoul of john because my religion i could easily go back to make a million so i can always say that trade has now added i didn't do i did lose it turned it down and of course the way it is that they get home now i don't what they call local tom and wanted more flesh in the bottom are freedom of the flesh and the bullet and freedom are people cause before money in this lab like people know what a day a white man such as you stand now we always talk about the money you broke our use of money that the people with money and we won't eat it then we'll all this well we'll know what day because it may get in the position of a fallen world the
iraqis who look like this so yes on the field project to libby's the greatest content to be somebody's argentina for not all will use a mobile audience know i can preach this audience wants then for the founders had done a lot of people see me so why not tied up what couldn't really useful at that one very well mr jue as people now conversation with muhammad ali with bud collins columnist boston globe produced by jane wainwright and returning this is then national educational
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Conversation with Muhammad Ali
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Muhammad Ali, the former Cassius Clay, finds his new role as a Black Muslim minister more satisfying than his former one as a boxer because he is now working for others and not just for himself. He has no desire to return to the ring and beat up his brother or someone else's brother since it is against his Black Muslim faith for him to participate in any "vicious" sport or any other sport. His only reason to return to the ring would be to rid himself of some $250,000 in debts for alimony and costs involved in the legal case coming from his refusing induction into the armed forces. Boasting that he is still the "greatest," he cites as evidence the crowds of people who wait for him wherever he appears as a speaker. He says that although he has been stripped of his world heavyweight boxing title because of his religious convictions, people still know that he is the "greatest."Contrary to popular opinion, he claims that the Black Muslims do not hate whites - that the hate image is just propaganda to discourage Negroes from becoming Black Muslims. Since it is the law of nature, he says, that blacks and whites will never be able to get along, he believes that Negroes should form their own society so that the Negro will not have to depend upon the white man for anything. He praises former Alabama Governor George Wallace for "telling the truth" and sharing Muhammad Ali's own views that the Negro has no place in a white society. Moreover, he deplores the actions of Negro militants, saying that it is absurd to fight a heavily armed and numerically superior society and compares it to a brave bull making a head-on charge against a freight train. His hometown of Louisville he finds "too slow" for him and terms himself a man on the move, laughingly adding that even if he were in jail, he would try to work out some kind of "moving plan.""A Conversation with Muhammad Ali" is a half-hour National Educational Television presentation, produced by its Boston affiliate station, WGBH. Producers: Greg Harney and Jane Wainwright; NET Executive Producer: William Weston; Host: Bud Collins. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
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1968-07-07
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1968-00-00
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Executive Producer: Weston, William
Guest: Ali, Muhammad
Host: Collins, Bud
Producer: Harney, Greg
Producer: Wainwright, Jane
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Chicago: “Conversation with Muhammad Ali,” 1968-07-07, WGBH, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed March 19, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-59c5c0ps.
MLA: “Conversation with Muhammad Ali.” 1968-07-07. WGBH, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. March 19, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-59c5c0ps>.
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