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In the 1980 movie Tom Horn, starring Steve McQueen, Horn has a run-in with heavyweight boxing champion John L. Sullivan. Did that truly happen?

by | May 26, 2015 | Uncategorized

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In the 1980 movie Tom Horn, starring Steve McQueen, Horn has a run-in with heavyweight boxing champion John L. Sullivan. Did that truly happen? Chris Castleberry Glendale, Arizona You’re referring to heavyweight champion “Gentleman Jim” Corbett, rather than John L. Sullivan, and Horn did not have a run-in with the boxer. However, the screenwriters may have borrowed from a true incident. While perusing my 1977 history of Arizona, I ran across a story about Sullivan visiting Tombst


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