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Jan 11, 2012 · Wednesday, January 11, 2012. This is J. Gordon Whitehead. This is the only known photo of Jocelyn Gordon Whitehead, the McGill University student who punched Houdini in his dressing room at the Princess Theater in Montreal on October 22, 1926.
Jocelyn Gordon Whitehead. Folk Figure. A student, as well as a boxer, at the McGill University, in Montreal, Quebec, he gained fame as the man who sucker-punched magician Harry Houdini. On October 22, 1926, he walked up to the distracted Houdini, said something, and then punched the magician in the stomach as he was laying down.
- Montreal, Quebec
- November 25, 1895
- England
- Biography
- Conspiracy Theories
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Whitehead was born on 25 November 1895 in the United States. His early years, and his parents, are unknown. He entered McGill University in the early 1920s and soon proved himself to be a good student and boxer. He was reported to always have bets on other people to fight him, but he allegedly always won. However, he would soon take his boxing skil...
There are many conspiracy theories surrounding why Whitehead punched Houdini. The first theory is that it was a plot initiated by spiritualists. Houdini, during his life, was never a spiritualist, as he had known that the practice was a fraud. This allegedly angered many in the spiritualist movement, and they developed a plot to poison Houdini. Whi...
He is known for being the killer of Houdini, despite evidence that Houdini died instead of his appendicitis. He is also known for being one of America's most notorious shoplifters of all time.
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- November 25, 1895
According to eyewitnesses, Houdini was laying on a couch having his portrait sketched by a student when Jocelyn Gordon Whitehead, a McGill University student, entered the room. Whitehead...
According to McGill’s archives, after the presentation, at least two students came to visit him in his dressing room: Jocelyn Gordon Whitehead and Samuel J. Smilovitz, who decided to sketch Houdini. During the meeting, Whitehead wanted to challenge Houdini’s strength and asked if the claims about the magician being able to absorb punches ...
May 9, 2014 · Of course, it was a student from McGill, Jocelyn Gordon Whitehead, who punched Houdini in his dressing room at the Princess Theater on October 22, 1926. Could these books give us our first look at Whitehead as a student? There is only one known photo of Whitehead, taken almost 25 years after the Houdini incident when he was in his 50s.
Mar 22, 2024 · They were later joined by a freshman student named Jocelyn Gordon Whitehead. While Smilovitch sketched Houdini, Whitehead chatted with the magician. After some talk about Houdini’s physical strength, Whitehead asked if it was true that he could withstand even the mightiest punch to the stomach.
