Roosevelt "Rosey" Grier (born July 14, 1932 in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Cuthbert, Georgia), a star athlete at Roselle High School(NJ), is an American football player, actor, and Christian minister. One of twelve children, Grier was named after Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was governor of New York at the time and was elected president later that year. Grier was well known in the 1970s for his hobbies of needlepoint and macrame, practices not normally associated with "macho" sports figures.

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Grier served as a bodyguard for his friend, U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Robert Kennedy, but was guarding Ethel Kennedy, the Senator's wife, then expecting a child, the night that Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles in 1968. Grier and Olympic gold medalist Rafer Johnson heard shots fired ahead of them. Grier grabbed the gun of the assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, jammed his finger behind the trigger, breaking Sirhan Sirhan's arm.

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Rosey Grier's Needlepoint for Men (1973)
Rosey, an Autobiography: The Gentle Giant (1986)
Winning (1990)
Shooting Star: Sometimes You Find What You Didn't Even Know You Were Looking For... : A Novel (1993) Community service
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He is a cousin of actress Pam Grier.