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Holly Mims (L) recoils from fury of middleweight contender Rubin (Hurricane) Carter during their bout at Madison Square Garden. Carter won a unanimous decision over Mims in the 4th round. Mims was a last minute substitute when Gomes Brennan became ill and had to withdraw.
1962
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A jubilant Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter displays his brute strength as he shows the hand he sued to knock Emile Griffith through the ropes for a T-KO in 2 min. and 13 seconds of the first round.
1963
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Middleweight champion Joey Giardello (right) signs a contract to defend his title against Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter (left) in Las Vegas. Eddie Jaffe, the promoter of the fight, of Telescript (center) watches the signing.
1964
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Boxer Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, was arrested and imprisoned along with John Artis for a bar room murder in 1966.
1966
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Rubin Carter, once middleweight boxing contender, now serving time (three life sentences) in Rahway prison for the murder of three people, shown during interview with Newark UPI reporter John Needham (not shown).
1972
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World heavyweight champ Muhammad Ali (center) leads a rally of some 1,000 persons through streets of Trenton, to urge New Jersey Governor Brendan Byrne to pardon former middleweight contender Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter. Carter is currently serving three conservative life sentences for a 1969 triple slaying in Paterson, New Jersey.
1975
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Carter speaks to the press at New Jersey's Clinton Prison after the state Supreme Court granted him a retrial in the 1966 murders of three persons in a Patterson, NJ bar. Carter had served nine years of three consecutive life sentences when witnesses in the original trial recanted testimony.
1976
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Former middleweight contender Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, dropped by Muhammad Ali's hotel suite, to thank the heavyweight champ for his efforts in getting Carter a new trial.
1976
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Carter waves and celebrates on the street after receiving his release from the New Jersey prison system in New York City after his conviction was overturned.
1988
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Actor Denzel Washington (L), star of the film 'The Hurricane,' based on the true story of Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter (C), an innocent man who fought for 20 years for justice, poses at the film's premiere party December 14 in Los Angeles with boxing champion Evander Holyfield. Washington portrays Carter in the film.
1999
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Former boxer Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter here with his World Boxing Championship belt.
2000
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Carter gives a public lecture at the Brisbane Convention Centre. Carter, who was immortalized in the Bob Dylan song Hurricane and later in a movie starring Denzel Washington, is in Australia this week to encourage the work of the Griffith University Innocence Project. Around 4000 people attended the lecture.
2003
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