John Cameron; Co-Founder of Motorcycle Club
John “J.D.” Cameron, 80, one of the motorcycle riders who inspired the classic Marlon Brando film “The Wild One.” Cameron and Wino Willie Forkner, 77, were the founding members of the South-Central Los Angeles-based Boozefighters Motorcycle Club, which gained nationwide notoriety after a motorcycle event in Hollister, Calif., in 1947. Born in Oregon, Cameron came to Los Angeles in the late 1930s and worked at the Todd shipyards in San Pedro before he became the owner of freight unloading and trucking businesses. On Monday in Los Angeles of congestive heart failure.
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