This morning, the mayor spoke honoring the hometown heros achievement as a fighter and humanitarian. Muhammad ali lived a life so big and bold, it is hard to believe that any one man could do everything he did, to do all the things he became in the course of one lifetime. This man, this champion, his louisvilleyan, lived 74 days yesterday as a United Nations messenger of peace, a humanitarian and champion athlete who earned the Lifetime Achievement award, Sports Illustrated sportsman of the century. He was cofounder with his beloved wife, lonnie, of the Muhammad Ali Center which promotes respect, hope and understanding here in his hometown of louisville and around the world. Cassius Marcellus Clay jr. , born january 17th, 1942 to cassius senior and odessa grady clay. Imagine that day, a little boy, eyes wide open looking around the room at the Old Louisville general hospital, not knowing the life that awaited him, the life he would make, the world he would shake up and the people he wo
After a long, difficult labour, Claire Keer was exhausted but also full of anticipation, waiting to hear her newborn s cry. But there was only the rhythmic bleep of medical machinery and silence.