Jesse Glover was Bruce Lee’s first student

Jesse Raymond Glover (October 15, 1935 – June 27, 2012) was Bruce Lee’s first student and first assistant instructor in the United States. He met Lee in 1959, as they both attended Edison Technical College and practiced judo with Lee. Glover was a psychology major and a champion judoka. The character Jerome Sprout in the 1993 film Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story was based on Glover. Jesse started a Gungfu class of his own and Leroy Garcia and James DeMile came along and assisted him, which was the first ever i