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Clay v. United States , 403 U.S. 698 (1971), was Muhammad Ali 's [ Footnote 1 ] appeal of his conviction in 1967 for refusing to report for induction into the United States military forces during the Vietnam War .
Cassius Marcellus Clay was born on October 19, 1810, in Madison County, Kentucky, to Sally Lewis and Green Clay, one of the wealthiest planters and slave owners in Kentucky, who became a prominent politician. He was one of six children who survived to adulthood, of seven born.
Ali would be stripped of both titles on April 28 for refusing induction into the U.S. Army. [29] Albania 's Communist Party leader and de facto leader, Enver Hoxha , made a speech which he called "Programmatic Discourse against Religion and Backward Habits", beginning a campaign to make Albania what he called "the world's first atheist state ...
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight is a 2013 American television drama film about boxer Muhammad Ali's refusal to report for induction into the United States military during the Vietnam War, focusing on how the United States Supreme Court decided to rule in Ali's favor in the 1971 case of Clay v. United States.
Bob Zaugh was one of many young men who resisted the U.S. military draft during the Vietnam War. How a tough federal judge handled his case changed both of their lives.
On the morning of Feb. 24, 1964, I sat in my office reviewing last minute details to the Cassius Clay-Sonny Liston fight to take place later that night at the Miami Beach Convention Center, when ...
Muhammad Ali (/ ɑː ˈ l iː /; [2] born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer and social activist. [ a ] A global cultural icon, widely known by the epithet " the Greatest ", he is frequently cited as the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky finds himself shunted down Donald Trump’s call sheet in favor of Russia’s Vladimir Putin, as the bones of a peace plan emerge that push Kyiv’s ...