Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter February 18, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Aftermath, Australian photographers , trackbackJusticeWA has brought the motivational speaker Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter, former middleweight boxer and a contender for that title to Perth for a Gala Fundraiser at the Sheraton on Saturday the 20th February 2010 for the organisation.
Rubin Carter was born May 6, 1937, in Clifton, New Jersey. In 1966, at the height of his boxing career, Carter was wrongly convicted—twice—of a triple murder and imprisoned for nearly two decades. During the mid-1970s, his case became a cause celébrè for a number of civil rights leaders, politicians, and entertainers. Bob Dylan wrote a song about tthe Hurricane. He was ultimately exonerated, in 1985, after a United States district court judge declared the convictions to be based on racial prejudice. He now works in the Innocence business. JusticeWA has the declared mission of working with people wrongfully accused by the justice system.
The JusticeWA site: www.justicewa.com
- Rubin ‘Hurricane” Carter addresses the media at Perth Domestic Airport Photo Bohdan Warchomij
- Rubin ‘Hurricane” Carter addresses the media scrum at Perth Domestic Airport Photo Bohdan Warchomij
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