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Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (May 6, 1937 – April 20, 2014) was an American-Canadian middleweight boxer, wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for murder, until released following a petition of habeas corpus after almost 20 years in prison.
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Jimmy Ellis (boxer) ... Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, Don...
- The Hurricane
The Hurricane is a 1999 American biographical sports drama...
- Jimmy Ellis
Feb 8, 2024 · Now 17% Off. $14 at Amazon. In 1999, widespread interest in the story of Carter was revived with a major motion picture, The Hurricane, directed by Norman Jewison and starring Washington. The...
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Jan 14, 2000 · The Hurricane: Directed by Norman Jewison. With Denzel Washington, Vicellous Shannon, Deborah Kara Unger, Liev Schreiber. The story of Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
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- Biography, Drama, Sport
- Norman Jewison
- 2000-01-14
Apr 3, 2019 · Carter turned professional boxer the day after being released from prison in September 1961. A year later, at the iconic Madison Square Garden, he needed just 69 seconds and one punch to knock...
Apr 20, 2014 · Rubin (Hurricane) Carter, a star prizefighter whose career was cut short by a murder conviction in New Jersey and who became an international cause célèbre while imprisoned for 19 years before...
Apr 20, 2014 · TORONTO (AP) — Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, the boxer whose wrongful murder conviction became an international symbol of racial injustice, has died at 76. John Artis, a longtime friend and caregiver, said Carter died in his sleep Sunday. Carter had been stricken with prostate cancer in Toronto, the New Jersey native’s adopted home.