Bob Dyl The Hurricane Carter

The song Hurricane by Bob Dylan is about the case of Rubin “The Hurricane” Carter which displays an example of the 60’s and mid-70’s turmoil and racism, and the major turning point in society to a bias and unjust system when it came to racial conflict. The song Hurricane by Bob Dylan impacted the black majority of american society because the song was written after an arrested African American boxer, Rubin “The Hurricane” Carter, who was falsely accused of a triple homicide in a bar in Paterson, New Jersey on June 17th, 1966. Later, released from prison following a petition of Habeas Corpus after spending nearly 20 years in prison. He was sent with his friend John Artis, who offered to drive Rubin home on the night of the murders. Two eyewitnesses who were also criminals for burglary,

Rubin Carter was known for marching nonviolently with MLK and later became a black muslim. He had talked to the press about fighting back, which in the eye of the public, made him an enemy and someone who was seen as violent and suspicious. Before this case, Rubin did not have a clean record during the juvenile years because he was arrested for stabbing a man he accused as a pedophile at the age of 12. He was put away for 7 years, and later when he was released, committed purse snatching and was put away for 4 years. Both of those cases were brought to surface by Vincent De Simone, who also took part in the Lafayette murders 18 years later. On the night of the murder, a man lying on a gurney recognizes Rubin Carter after the police bought him as a suspect, and the man had stated that he did not commit the murder, and that it was somebody else. There was a man named Bello who was around there the same time during the murder, and as stated in the song “i didn’t do it’ he says and he throws up his hands, i was only robbing the register, i hope you