Publicity

    Billy with promoter Mike Jacobs and wife Mary Louise.

  Billy celebrating with the troops at the 191st General Hospital in Paris France on VE (Victory in Europe) day, May 8, 1945 (courtesy of Jim Hennessey - center, back row, arrow).

    Mike Jacobs greets Corporal Billy Conn on arrival from Paris at LaGuardia Field.

    Billy in the mid-1980's next to a statue of himself.

    Billy standing next to some of the hundreds of great pictures in the club cellar of his house in the Squirrel Hill area of Pittsburgh.

    Getting dressed in front of the mirror and dog Rex

    Getting pictures taken with a few models on Miami Beach, FL

    Signing an autograph for a young fan

    Asleep with a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper

    Working on the set of the movie "The Pittsburgh Kid"

    Billy was the Grand Marshall of the Chicago St. Patrick's Day Parade in 1988.  He is in the center wearing the trench coat and black gloves.

    St. Patrick's Day,  Chicago in 1988.  Eli Schulman, fight announcer Ben Bentley, Steve Neal, and Ray Coffey of the Chicago Sun Times in the back row.  Seated in the front, Billy and Johnny Lattner, former Notre Dame Heisman winner.

    This was Billy's favorite picture.  It was taken after his second fight with Fred Apostoli.  The caption said, "If this is the winner, what does the loser look like".

    Another shot of Billy after the Apostoli fight.

    Signing the contract for the first Louis fight

    an add for Adam's hats.

    Billy and Mary Louise arrive in Hollywood for filming of the movie, "The Pittsburgh Kid".

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