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Article: James Brown: Legal woes a year later
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- Chicago Defender
- Article date:
- January 7, 2008
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AUGUSTA, Ga. - A year ago, I was en route here to visit my mother for the Christmas holidays when James Brown died. This year, in what is becoming an annual rite, I visited James Brown's statute downtown and also reflected on the 12 tumultuous months that followed his death.
And what a year.
We were subjected to one of the longest gaps between a death and burial in modern times, beginning with "Brown's pneumonia-related heart attack on Christmas Day and his temporary burial March 10, 2007, three funerals and almost three months later, in an aboveground crypt at his daughter Deanna Thomas' home in Beech Island, S.C. Plans are to eventually create an Elvis Presley Graceland-like center on ...