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PublishedMay 15, 2015
Ali-Liston 50th: Paul Marcotte, Journal reporter who broke story
Paul Marcotte spent only seven years in the newspaper business, and that time elapsed long before the dawn of what we know as the 24-hour news cycle. It was still an era when you could break a story at any hour of the day or night, which Marcotte demonstrated by dishing out the scoop on […]
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PublishedMay 15, 2015
Ali-Liston 50th: Barbara Harris, whose father was one of the judges
The Phantom Punch at 50 Interactive guide to our stories, photos, audio and video | Audio: Listen to the radio broadcast from the fight | Video: Can you see the punch? | Interactive timeline of the fighters’ careers | Newspaper coverage & readers’ memories from 1965 DIXFIELD — Watch the grainy video of Muhammad Ali knocking out Sonny Liston a hundred times, and you may never see […]
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PublishedMay 15, 2015
Ali-Liston 50th: George Mattor, ‘go-fer’ in the Liston camp
The Phantom Punch at 50 Interactive guide to our stories, photos, audio and video | Audio: Listen to the radio broadcast from the fight | Video: Can you see the punch? | Interactive timeline of the fighters’ careers | Newspaper coverage & readers’ memories from 1965 On the night of Liston’s heavyweight title rematch against Muhammad Ali at Saint Dominic’s Arena, Mattor sat in the second […]
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PublishedMay 15, 2015
Ali-Liston 50th: Paul Dube, businessman who got big boost
The Phantom Punch at 50 Interactive guide to our stories, photos, audio and video | Audio: Listen to the radio broadcast from the fight | Video: Can you see the punch? | Interactive timeline of the fighters’ careers | Newspaper coverage & readers’ memories from 1965 In 1965, both the Twin Cities travel agent and the world heavyweight champion were off to a pretty good start […]
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PublishedMay 15, 2015
Ali-Liston: The ‘phantom punch’ turns 50
The Phantom Punch at 50 Interactive guide to our stories, photos, audio and video | Audio: Listen to the radio broadcast from the fight | Video: Can you see the punch? | Interactive timeline of the fighters’ careers | Newspaper coverage & readers’ memories from 1965 Everybody gets in line. An adult whispers a short, perhaps confusing message in the first person’s ear. He relays […]
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PublishedMay 15, 2015
SUN JOURNAL EXCLUSIVE: Never-before-seen photos from Ali, Liston training camps
LEWISTON — One of the defining moments of this project came late in the process, when Sun Journal Chief Photographer Russ Dillingham unearthed four tan, tattered, vertical envelopes, each with a typewritten date and description near the top crease. These never-before-printed photos from the recently uncovered negatives offer a rare glimpse into what training was like […]
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PublishedMay 15, 2015
‘That was a very, very disappointing performance. That little flick, a phantom punch. Bah!’
Former Lewiston Evening Journal Sports Editor Fred Gage worked for WLAM radio in 1965, and called the fight for the local AM station. These are his recollections of the fight and circumstances surrounding the events, as told to current Sports Editor Justin Pelletier in 2005. “The event itself was kind of a disaster, but the […]
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PublishedMay 15, 2015
Clay stops Liston in one minute of first round
Clay Retains Heavyweight Title in Lewiston Arena Lewiston lived up to its reputation as a fast-knockout town last night at the Youth Center when heavyweight champion Cassius M. A. Clay put away Charles (Sonny) Liston in a minute of the first round. Ring record books list Lewiston City Hall as the site of the fastest […]
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PublishedMay 15, 2015
The Phantom Punch at 50: Commemorative issue to mark anniversary of Ali-Liston II
LEWISTON — The city of Lewiston wasn’t the original destination for the second meeting between Muhammad Ali (then known to many as Cassius Clay) and Sonny Liston, but as Paul Marcotte of the Lewiston Evening Journal wrote in a stop-the-presses, breaking news story on May 7, 1965, Lewiston would become “the fight capitol (sic) for […]
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PublishedJuly 21, 2014
Oxford 250: Travis Benjamin tastes victory twice
Defending race winner Travis Benjamin came from 27th on the 44-car grid, took over the point at lap 227 and held off a hard-charging Austin Theriault to win his second consecutive Oxford 250 Sunday evening at Oxford Plains Speedway. Josh Childs (Street Stock); Matt Bourgoine (NELCAR Legends); Kris Watson (Outlaw Series); and Mark Lucas (PASS […]
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