2021年3月16日 · An unidentified mourner kneels by the open casket of baseball hall of famer Jackie Robinson at the Duncan Bros. funeral home in the Harlem neighborhood in New York, Oct. 25, 1972....

Jackie Robinson's Casket Carried at Funeral (Original Caption) 10/27/1972-New York, NY: The body of Jackie Robinson is carried from the church after the funeral services, Oct. 27. Carrying the casket are Bill Russell and Ralph Branca at left and Don Newcombe and Pee Wee Reese at …

1972年10月26日 · But yesterday afternoon belonged to Harlem, to the grass‐roots street people who helped fill the bleachers'at Ebbets Field when Jackie Robinson was making history as major league baseball's...

1972年10月25日 · Download this stock image: An unidentified mourner kneels by the open casket of baseball hall of famer Jackie Robinson at the Duncan Bros. funeral home in the Harlem neighborhood in New York, Oct. 25, 1972. Robinson, who was the first African-American player in the major leagues, died of a heart attack the day before. He was 53.

2011年2月2日 · At the teenager’s funeral in Chicago, his grieving mother insisted on an open casket so that all could witness the brutality of his murder, saying “Let the world see what I’ve seen.” The publication of a black-and-white photo of Till’s mutilated corpse in Jet magazine was a turning point in the American Civil Rights Movement.

1997年4月15日 · Three days after Robinson's death, Reverend Jesse Jackson gave a stirring eulogy to friends and family members who had gathered at the Cypress Hill Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. "Jackie's body was a temple of God, an instrument of peace.

2022年4月15日 · At Cypress Hills Cemetery, six miles from the site of the first base bag at Ebbets Field, the teammates carried the casket from the hearse to the gravesite, and Robinson was lowered into the...

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.

2022年10月27日 · That amazing decade that took place after the 1960s and before the 1980s. Some of Jackie Robinson's former Brooklyn Dodger teammates carry his casket from Riverside Church in New York, October 27, 1972, following funeral services. I bet he had some stories. Is that Howard cosell on the back left corner?

On October 24, 1972, at the age of 56, he collapsed and died at his home in Stamford, Connecticut from heart disease. 2,500 people attended his funeral and 5 former teammates carried his casket. On April 15, 1997 number 42 was retired from baseball's major leagues and it officially became Jackie Robinson day.