Media Meddlers: The Real Truth About the Murder Case Against Rubin “Hurricane” Carter
Author | : LeAD DetectiVe Vincent J. De Simone Jr. |
Publisher | : Hybrid Global Publishing |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2021-05-21 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781948181457 |
ISBN-13 | : 1948181452 |
Rating | : 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Media Meddlers is a provocative book that not only addresses one of the nation’s most controversial murder cases, but also indicts a sacred institution— the media—for the way some of its members used the power of the First Amendment to turn justice into injustice. Seldom has there been written a book that so clearly exposes the abuse of freedom of speech. Early on the morning of June 17, 1966, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, then at the height of his career as a professional middleweight boxer, and his friend, young John Artis, walked into the Lafayette Grill in Paterson, New Jersey, and blasted away with a shotgun and .32 caliber pistol, killing two men and a woman. Another man, shot through the head, miraculously survived.