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  2. Rubin Carter - Wikipedia

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    Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (May 6, 1937 – April 20, 2014) was an American-Canadian middleweight boxer who was wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for murder, [2] until released following a petition of habeas corpus after almost 20 years in prison.

  3. Hurricane (Bob Dylan song) - Wikipedia

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    Here comes the story of the Hurricane.' Boom! Titles. You know, Bob loves movies, and he can write these movies that take place in eight to ten minutes, yet seem as full or fuller than regular movies". [3] After meeting with Carter in prison and later with a group of his supporters, Dylan began to write "Hurricane".

  4. Burrell Ives Humphreys - Wikipedia

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    A Democrat, Humphreys became the Passaic County Prosecutor in June 1975, appointed by New Jersey Governor Brendan Byrne. [4] In March 1976 the New Jersey Supreme Court overturned the 1967 conviction of two black men, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and John Artis, for a triple murder of three white victims in a bar in Paterson.

  5. The Hurricane (1999 film) - Wikipedia

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    The Hurricane is a 1999 American biographical sports drama film directed and produced by Norman Jewison.The film stars Denzel Washington as Rubin "The Hurricane" Carter, a former middleweight boxer who was wrongly convicted of a triple murder in a bar in Paterson, New Jersey.

  6. The Hurricane Tapes - Wikipedia

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    Rubin Carter in 2011. The Hurricane Tapes is a 13-part BBC World Service podcast series, released in 2019, discussing in detail the case of Rubin Carter, an American-Canadian middleweight boxer, wrongfully convicted twice of murder in 1966 and 1976 respectively and later released following a petition of habeas corpus in 1985 after serving almost 20 years in prison.

  7. Bob Dylan - Wikipedia

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    In the middle of 1975, Dylan championed boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, imprisoned for triple murder, with his ballad "Hurricane" making the case for Carter's innocence. Despite its length—over eight minutes—the song was released as a single, peaking at 33 on the US Billboard chart , and performed at every 1975 date of Dylan's next tour ...

  8. Paterson courthouse street renamed for Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter

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    Theodora Carter, the daughter of Ruben Hurricane Carter, the boxer who was wrongfully convicted of murder, attends the street naming ceremony for her father in front of the Passaic County ...

  9. Vincent DeSimone - Wikipedia

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    Vincent J. DeSimone, Jr. (1918–1979) was the chief of detectives of Passaic County, New Jersey, USA.In 1966, he was the lead detective who coached witnesses in the homicide case at Lafayette Grill in Paterson, New Jersey, in order to implicate boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and John Artis. [1]