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Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • attractive black men who as a teenager was placed in a detention home because of petty thievery. Fortunately, he was placed in the Camp Kilmer Job Corps program. There they discovered he had talent as a boxer. With help from supervisors in the camp, he