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Hurricane Carter

Hurricane CarterAKA Rubin Carter

Born: 6-May-1937
Birthplace: Paterson, NJ
Died: 20-Apr-2014
Location of death: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Cause of death: Cancer - Prostate

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Boxing, Criminal

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Boxer twice convicted of triple-murder

Military service: US Army (enlisted 1954, discharged 1956 as unfit)

Wife: Lisa Peters (div.)

    Shoplifting (1946)
    Vandalism (1946)
    Theft Paterson, NJ (21-Mar-1949)
    Theft (May-1951)
    Assault (25-Jun-1951)
    Robbery (25-Jun-1951)
    Escaped from Prison State Home for Boys (1-Jul-1954)
    AWOL
    Insubordination
    Dishonorable Discharge (May-1956)
    Robbery (2-Jul-1957)
    Assault (2-Jul-1957)
    Inciting a Riot (3-Jan-1961)
    Polygraphed (17-Jun-1966)
    Murder (convicted 1967)
    Assault (9-Apr-1970)
    Assault (29-Apr-1976)
    Murder (convicted 1976, again, overturned 1985)
    Drug Dealing cocaine (pled guilty 1986)
    Conspiracy pled guilty (1986)
    Unlawful Possession of a Firearm
    Risk Factors: Alcoholism, Cocaine

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (11-Jun-2019)
    Renaldo and Clara (25-Jan-1978) · Himself

Author of books:
The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender to #45472 (1974)
Eye of the Hurricane: My Path from Darkness to Freedom (2011, memoir)



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