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Rubin Hurricane Carter Trunks Autograph
Boxing Trunks Signed by Rubin Hurrican Carter.
This wonderful item comes complete with our Certificate
of Authenticity and a photograph of Hurrican Carter at the
signing, plus all the attached security holograms, so you
can be rest assured you are buying a genuine autograph.
Hurricane was the number one contender for
the Middleweight Title, until he was falsely accused, and
convicted of murder. In 1966, Patterson, New Jersey had
strong racial prejudice, even in the law community. The
case was that a witness saw Hurricane and an accomplice
kill the bartender, and a patron in the Lafayette Bar &
Grill. Though the state's evidence depended largely on the
shaky testimony of two former convicts, Carter and Artis
were convicted by an all-white jury of the murders. They
were sentenced in 1967 to life behind bars. Carter refused
to behave like other prisoners. This stemed from his belief
that he was not a criminal; therefore, he should not be
treated like one. He did not eat the prison's food and wear
prison garb. He rarely left his cell and concentrated mostly
on reading books and writing. In 1974, he published "The
Sixteenth Round", his version of the events that led
to his incarceration. He gained celebrity from it, and Bob
Dylan wrote a song entitled "Hurricane" that chronicled
Carter's case and his suffering. In 1976, Carter was retried
after a brief period of being on parole. Both of the earlier
key witnesses had changed their stories. Nevertheless, the
result was the same. Carter and Artis were returned to prison
after a second conviction. Over several years Carter's lawyers
fought for hearings to show that Carter had been denied
a right to a fair trial. Finally in 1985, Federal District
Judge H. Lee Sarokin freed Carter after Sarokin wrote that
the convictions were based on racial prejudices and not
facts. He was recently the subject of a movie starring Denzel
Washington. Joey Giardello was the middleweight champion
of the worls and inducted in the Boxing Hall of Fame in
1993.
Hurricane Carter
£75.00
