30 Facts About Rubin Carter

Rubin Carter's autobiography, titled The Sixteenth Round, written while he was in prison, was published in 1974 by Viking Press.

From 1993 to 2005, Rubin Carter served as executive director of the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted, later renamed Innocence Canada.

Rubin Carter was born in Clifton, New Jersey in 1937, the fourth of seven children.

Rubin Carter later admitted to a troubled relationship with his father, a strict disciplinarian.

Rubin Carter escaped from the reformatory in 1954 and joined the United States Army.

Rubin Carter was discharged in 1956 as unfit for service, after four courts-martial.

Rubin Carter fought six times in 1963, winning four bouts and losing two.

Rubin Carter won two more fights in 1964, before meeting Giardello in Philadelphia for a 15-round championship match on December 14.

Rubin Carter landed a few solid rights to the head in the fourth round that left Giardello staggering, but was unable to follow them up and Giardello took control of the fight in the fifth round.

Rubin Carter's last fight was on August 5,1966, against Juan Carlos Rivero.

Rubin Carter's career ended short with a record of 27 wins with 19 total knockouts, 12 losses and one draw in 40 fights.

Rubin Carter received an honorary championship title belt from the World Boxing Council in 1993 and was later inducted into the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame.

Rubin Carter was in the back, with Artis driving and a third man, John Royster, in the passenger seat.

Rubin Carter ran from them and they got into a white car that was double-parked near the Lafayette.

Rubin Carter then heard the screech of tires and saw a white car shoot past, heading west, with two black males in the front seat.

Rubin Carter did arrange for an expert to conduct lie detector tests, which they passed.

Rubin Carter positively identified Artis as one of the attackers, while Bradley now came forward to claim Carter was the other; based on this, the two were arrested and indicted.

Rubin Carter produced witnesses who confirmed Carter and Artis were still in the Nite Spot at the time of the shootings.

On December 7,1975, Dylan performed the song at a concert at Trenton State Prison, where Rubin Carter was temporarily an inmate.

The court set aside the original convictions and granted Rubin Carter and Artis a new trial.

The Philadelphia Daily News reported the alleged beating in a front-page story several weeks later, and celebrity support for Rubin Carter quickly eroded, though Rubin Carter denied the accusation.

Mae Thelma Basket, whom Rubin Carter had married in 1963, divorced him after their second child was born, because she found out that he had been unfaithful to her.

In 1985, Rubin Carter's attorneys filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in federal court.

Rubin Carter was married to Lisa Peters for six years but claimed the marriage was never consummated.

Rubin Carter became a Canadian citizen, and was executive director of the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted from 1993 until 2005.

Rubin Carter was released after the police realized their error.

Rubin Carter received the Abolition Award from Death Penalty Focus in 1996.

In March 2012, while attending the International Justice Conference in Burswood, Western Australia, Rubin Carter revealed that he had terminal prostate cancer.

Rubin Carter was afterwards cremated and his ashes were scattered in part over Cape Cod and in part at a horse farm in Kentucky.

Two months before his death, Rubin Carter published "Hurricane Rubin Carter's Dying Wish", an opinion piece in the New York Daily News, in which he asked for an independent review of McCallum's conviction.