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About 2,500 people turned out for Robinson's funeral at New York's Riverside Church on October 27, 1972. Rev. Jesse Jackson enthusiastically recounted the events of Robinson's life and delivered the eulogy to a crowd that cheered more as though it was celebrating a ninth-inning home run than a funeral.

1972年10月28日 · Robinson, son of a Georgia sharecropper and grandson of a slave, died last Tuesday of heart attack at the age of 53 in Stamford, Conn. In recent years, he had been partly blinded by diabetes. He...

Rev. Jesse L. Jackson gave the eulogy at Jackie Robinson’s funeral in 1972 and I closed the musical part of the services with the spiritual “I Told Jesus.” #onthisday , we remember the man who burst onto the scene in 1942, breaking baseball’s color barrier and setting into motion a career that would inspire people all over the world.

1997年4月15日 · Jackie Robinson was honored in a ceremony during the 1972 World Series. Two weeks later, on October 24, 1972, the legendary ball player died at his home in Stamford, Connecticut from a second heart attack.

Jackie Robinson died of a heart attack in Stamford, Connecticut, on October 24, 1972, at the age of 53. In 1997, twenty-five years after his death, Major League Baseball (MLB) retired his Number 42 in tribute to a great man who was willing to suffer …

[80] [255] Robinson's funeral service on October 27, 1972, at Upper Manhattan's Riverside Church in Morningside Heights, attracted 2,500 mourners. [258] [259] Many of his former teammates, other famous baseball players, and basketball star Bill Russell served as pallbearers, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson gave the eulogy.

1972年10月27日 · The body of Robinson, a member of baseball's Hall of Fame, was placed on view Wednesday at a Harlem funeral home and was moved to the church yesterday. Funeral services for Robinson, who...

2023年9月20日 · Legacy's online obit database has obituaries, death notices, and funeral services for 133 people named Jackie Robinson from thousands of the largest funeral homes and newspapers in the...

1972年10月26日 · Robinson died Tuesday at the age of 53 in Stamford, Conn. The Rev. George Lawrence, the Robinson family's pastor, said the funeral procession would go through Harlem and the...