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This Day in History: Muhammad Ali saves suicidal man

When a man was ready to jump off a Los Angeles building on January 19, 1981 it wasn't the police who rescued him, it was championship boxer Muhammad Ali. CBSN looks back at the story in its weekly segment, "The Way it Was."
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