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References
- 1 2 VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever - Leon Isaaxc Kennedy (1949)
- 1 2 Screen World _ Leon Isaac Kennedy (1949)
- 1 2 Directory of Historical Figures - Salem
- ↑ Notable Black American Women, Book 2 - Jayne Kennedy Overton
- ↑ JET Magazine - Leon Kennedy Planned Slow Emergence Into Limelight - June 11, 1981
- ↑ Encyclopedia of Sports Films - By K Edgington, Thomas Erskine, James M. Welsh
- 1 2 Trying to Get Over: African American Directors after Blaxploitation, 1977-1986, By Keith Corson - Page 127 |Outside of Society
- ↑ Jet, May 24, 1973 - Page 21 - 23 LIFESTYLES, Beauty + Brains = Success
- ↑ Rotten Tomatoes - Hammer (1972)
- ↑ Reflections on Blaxploitation: Actors and Directors Speak, By David Walker, Andrew J. Rausch, Chris Watson - Page 205 BLAXPLOITATION FROM A TO Z
- ↑ New York Times , November 22, 1981 - Movie Review, 'Body and Soul', Remake of Ring Saga
- ↑ Comeuppance Reviews, 3/07/2012 - Skeleton Coast (1988)
- ↑ TV.com - Against the Law Season 1 Episode 14, Damages
- ↑ Page 21 - 23 LIFESTYLES, Beauty + Brains = Success
- ↑ TMZ - Sportscaster Sex Tape Jayne Kennedy's Ex-Hubby Suing: "I Didn't Leak Our Sex Tape!!" - February 5, 2014
- ↑ EURWEB - Leon Issac Kennedy - In Open Letter Tells Why He's Suing Ebony Magazine & Johnson Publications - February 2014
