President Donald Trump Pardons Late LSU Football Legend Billy Cannon

by Staff Reporter

February 13, 20269 Comments

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Former LSU Football player and 1959 Heisman Trophy Winner Billy Cannon received a presidential pardon from Donald Trump earlier this week.

Cannon was one of five former football players to receive pardons. Per LSUWire:

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Cannon, who passed away in 2018, played at LSU from 1957-59. He's widely regarded as one of the best players in LSU history, winning a Heisman and a national championship while in Baton Rouge. After leaving LSU, Canon went on to have a lengthy professional career in the NFL.

After Canon retired from football, he became a dentist, but in 1983, he admitted to participating in a counterfeiting scheme, which resulted in a five-year prison sentence, of which he served two and a half years.

Alice Marie Johnson, Trump's Pardon Czar, shared the news of Cannon's pardon on social media. Cannon received the pardon alongside four other former professional football players: Joe Klecko, Nate Newton, Jamal Lewis, and Travis Henry.

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LSU82Cajun•6 days

Cannon redeemed himself by offering his dentist & medical expertise at Angola state penitentiary . Changed the environment of archaic medical practices & improved the facilities so that they would be up to date . Devoted the rest his life doing this. So you morons commenting you don’t know sh*t.

cajunmud•6 days

Counterfeiting illegal...hahaha...yeah right. But only for us serfs.

What did those other guys do?

Koolazzkat•6 days

Hell yeah!

Davy•6 days

We should remove the pardon power of the president. Only the rich, the famous, or those connected to the president himself ever receive one.

Muzza•6 days

You so wrong. Mrs Alice Johnson the black woman who announced the pardons was a person Trump pardoned in his 1st term & made her the pardon CZAR. She was a single mom with children who was sentenced to I believe 25+ for selling weed so she could feed her children. Husband up and left entire family. California judge gave her 25 years. Children lost their mom for many years. TRUMP freed her rightfully so. I understand what you saying but sometimes people gotta do what they can to survive.

Davy•6 days

To right that wrong in a republic, the legislative branch should change the law. Not let one man override our justice system based on whim. There are thousands of Alice Johnsons still in prison, and the president will never hear of them.

Tigers4Lyfe•5 days

What a naive comment. The truth is you think that because that's the only ones you hear about. Joe Schmo being pardoned doesn't make the news.

Anemone•6 days

Birds of a feather

Big Scrub TX•6 days

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