Sonny Liston-"Flying Home"

 

 
 


 


World heavyweight champion Sonny Liston running from the press through a Denver, Colorado airport... Measures a large 8 x 10"... Some writing confined to border... Condition is excellent... Simply put, Liston did not like the media... Great clear image... Wide World Photo

 
 

FROM THE BOOKS
Charles "Sonny" Liston was the 24th of 25 offspring born to a father married for the second time. He arrived on this mundane sphere on a dilapidated cotton farm near Little Rock. From an impoverished childhood, filled with hatred, insecurity and distrust...

insecurity

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and distrust

...he became a juvenile delinquent. By the time Charley was 18 he had been convicted of six muggings and was en route to Missouri State Penitentiary for robbing a gas station in St. Louis. It was the first of two prison sentences he served.
Jersey Jones-The Ring
April, 1971