Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter dead at 76
JEFF GRAY
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Published Sunday, Apr. 20 2014, 9:16 AM EDT
Last updated Sunday, Apr. 20 2014, 11:25 AM EDT
Rubin (Hurricane) Carter, a professional boxer who served nearly 20 years in prison in New Jersey after being wrongfully convicted of a 1966 triple murder, became an international figure after his release as an advocate for others jailed for crimes they did not commit.
Mr. Carter, a cause célèbre in the 1970s whose plight was dramatized in an eight-and-a-half-minute song by Bob Dylan and later in a 1999 movie starring Denzel Washington, died on Sunday in Toronto after a battle with prostate cancer. He was 76.
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Bob Dylan's 1975 hit "Hurricane" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGMSfiH850o