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This Day in Minnesota History

January 7, 1924

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A warrant is issued for the arrest of Joseph Friedman, operator of the Tower Theater in St. Paul, where he had shown clips of the Dempsey-Gibbons boxing match. Tommy Gibbons, a St. Paulite who later became Ramsey County sheriff, went fifteen rounds with heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey in Montana on July 4, 1923. Because boxing was illegal in some states at this time, interstate shipment of such pictures was outlawed, and Friedman would be charged with "receiving and exhibiting fight films in violation of Federal law."

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