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May 09, 2017 rubin hurricane carter s the 16th round made my weekend delightful. See more ideas about rubin carter, rubin hurricane carter and black history. His life has been the subject of three books and a major motion picture, the hurricane, starring denzel washington. Rubin hurricane carter may 6, 1937 april 20, 2014 was an americancanadian middleweight boxer, wrongfully convicted of murder and later released following a petition of habeas corpus after serving almost 20 years in prison in 1966, carter, and his cousin, john artis, were arrested for a triple homicide committed at the lafayette bar and grill in paterson, new jersey. But his career crashed to a halt on may 26, 1967, when he and another man were found guilty of the murder of three white people in a new jersey bar. Carter s autobiography, titled the sixteenth round, written while he was in prison, was published in 1975 by warner books. Of the three books only the authorized biography is. The movie was largely based on carters 1974 autobiography and chaiton and swintons 1991 book, which was rereleased in late 1999. While serving as a paratrooper in germany, carter picked up boxing and quickly made a name for himself with his fast, aggressive. The sixteenth round by rubin hurricane carter book. Buy the sixteenth round by rubin carter online at alibris. He died at 76 of prostate cancer on sunday in toronto.
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