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Article: Fans, friends & family bid farewell to famed Atty. Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. during funeral in L.A.(NATIONAL REPORT)
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- Jet
- Article date:
- April 25, 2005
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More than 5,000 family members, clients, celebrities and admirers jammed the West Angeles Cathedral in Los Angeles to say farewell to Johnnie L. Cochran Jr.
Cochran, who died recently at the age of 67 from an inoperable brain tumor, was eulogized as a modern-day Thurgood Marshall" who fought for the civil rights of many on his "journey to justice."
"Journey to Justice" was the theme of the funeral that lasted four hours and featured more than 25 speakers and was open to the public.
"Johnnie Cochran was to this era what Thurgood Marshall was to the era before," Rev. Al Sharpton told the packed cathedral.
He pointed to O.J. Simpson, ...