1 00:01:43,137 --> 00:01:45,448 And just a reminder, ladies and gentlemen... 2 00:01:45,467 --> 00:01:48,618 this fine young fighter will be right here in Pittsburgh... 3 00:01:48,637 --> 00:01:52,057 on the boxing card this Monday night. 4 00:01:55,267 --> 00:01:59,217 Time now for the main event of the evening! 5 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:06,477 In this corner, from Paterson, New Jersey... 6 00:02:06,617 --> 00:02:10,117 wearing the white trunks with the black stripe... 7 00:02:10,247 --> 00:02:13,417 the winner of 18 of his last 21 fights... 8 00:02:13,898 --> 00:02:17,326 Rubin "Hurricane" Carter! 9 00:02:24,927 --> 00:02:27,787 And in the left corner... 10 00:02:27,927 --> 00:02:30,497 in the dark trunks with the white stripe... 11 00:02:30,637 --> 00:02:32,745 from St Thomas, Virgin Islands... 12 00:02:33,045 --> 00:02:36,974 the welterweight champion of the world, Emile Griffith! 13 00:02:44,166 --> 00:02:46,342 Fighters, let's go. 14 00:02:47,439 --> 00:02:49,094 All right. 15 00:02:49,352 --> 00:02:51,847 All right. Keep your punches up. It's gonna be a good, clean fight... 16 00:02:51,866 --> 00:02:53,390 all right? 17 00:02:53,867 --> 00:02:57,627 All right. Let's touch gloves. Good luck. Okay, go to your corners. 18 00:03:01,301 --> 00:03:03,907 Hurricane, blow yourself outta here! 19 00:03:06,687 --> 00:03:08,530 Go get 'im, Rubin. 20 00:03:10,954 --> 00:03:13,243 Come on, baby, get 'im. 21 00:03:15,017 --> 00:03:18,017 Come on and get me! I'm in here! 22 00:03:18,147 --> 00:03:21,647 I'll tell you what. First one through that door is gonna die! 23 00:03:21,767 --> 00:03:24,887 And the second one, and the third one after that! So come on! 24 00:03:25,027 --> 00:03:26,597 Room in here for everybody. 25 00:03:29,527 --> 00:03:32,537 Collins! Becker! Klein on the platform! 26 00:03:32,657 --> 00:03:35,432 - Kelly, lock everything down! - Go! 27 00:03:37,117 --> 00:03:39,107 It's Carter, tier one! 28 00:03:40,707 --> 00:03:43,815 Got room in here for everybody! So come on! 29 00:03:46,679 --> 00:03:49,467 Three times life! That's what I got! Three times life! 30 00:03:49,587 --> 00:03:52,658 And for what? For murders I didn't even commit? 31 00:03:52,927 --> 00:03:55,337 I ain't got nothin' but time, so come on! I'm ready for ya! 32 00:03:55,492 --> 00:03:57,127 Come on in and get me! 33 00:03:57,267 --> 00:04:00,347 Y'all wanna know who's talking? Hurricane is talking! 34 00:04:00,477 --> 00:04:03,147 You wanna see The Hurricane? Come on up in here and see him! 35 00:04:03,267 --> 00:04:04,669 Come on up in here and see him! 36 00:04:06,857 --> 00:04:08,799 Did you see that punch? 37 00:04:17,117 --> 00:04:19,077 Oh, no! 38 00:04:35,677 --> 00:04:37,660 Lucky punch! 39 00:04:38,256 --> 00:04:40,126 You got him, Rubin boy! 40 00:04:41,687 --> 00:04:44,084 Three, four... 41 00:04:44,267 --> 00:04:46,795 five, six- 42 00:04:47,227 --> 00:04:49,088 - You all right? - Yeah, I'm all right. 43 00:04:51,147 --> 00:04:52,383 All right. Let's go. 44 00:04:56,345 --> 00:04:58,722 Knock him out! Come on! 45 00:05:00,077 --> 00:05:02,936 He's in your corner! Get out of that corner! 46 00:05:14,961 --> 00:05:17,734 Another left to the body. Another right to the head. 47 00:05:17,825 --> 00:05:20,677 - A vicious combination! - Yeah! Yeah! 48 00:05:22,438 --> 00:05:27,709 And he looks like he's going down! He hits the canvas. 49 00:05:28,477 --> 00:05:31,057 Four, five- 50 00:05:31,187 --> 00:05:33,591 It doesn't look like he's gonna get up. 51 00:05:34,777 --> 00:05:36,594 - Five- - He's up! 52 00:05:36,613 --> 00:05:38,679 - The referee is checking him. - You all right? 53 00:05:40,077 --> 00:05:43,017 And that's it! It's over! 54 00:05:44,457 --> 00:05:48,939 At two minutes and 13 seconds of the first round... 55 00:05:49,013 --> 00:05:52,151 Rubin "Hurricane" Carter has defeated... 56 00:05:52,170 --> 00:05:54,710 the welterweight champion of the world. 57 00:05:55,404 --> 00:05:57,364 Come on, come on, come on! Come on! 58 00:05:57,467 --> 00:05:59,047 - Come on! Who wants some? - Where's the key? 59 00:05:59,177 --> 00:06:00,667 - Who's first? - Shut up! 60 00:06:00,873 --> 00:06:02,953 - Relax there, Carter! - What the hell's goin' on? 61 00:06:03,057 --> 00:06:04,612 - I'm goin' in there. - Are you nuts? 62 00:06:04,630 --> 00:06:05,914 You wanna get yourself killed? 63 00:06:05,957 --> 00:06:08,707 Everybody stand down! Stand down! 64 00:06:08,840 --> 00:06:09,835 - Come on in here. - Back off! 65 00:06:09,854 --> 00:06:11,587 - Talk to 'em, Jimmy. Talk to them! - Rubin. 66 00:06:11,817 --> 00:06:12,588 - Talk to them! - Rubin. 67 00:06:12,607 --> 00:06:13,952 - Tell me what's goin' on. - I ain't takin' no shit! 68 00:06:14,112 --> 00:06:15,932 - Rubin, calm down! It's me, Jimmy. - You can talk to 'em! I ain't no animal! 69 00:06:15,950 --> 00:06:16,952 Come here and talk to me. 70 00:06:16,971 --> 00:06:20,262 - I ain't takin' no shit in here! - Rubin, calm down! Calm down! 71 00:06:20,327 --> 00:06:22,181 Take it easy, champ. Now, tell me what's goin' on. 72 00:06:22,197 --> 00:06:23,464 Tell me what's happenin'. 73 00:06:24,591 --> 00:06:25,976 Come on! 74 00:06:31,627 --> 00:06:33,057 Hurricane done killed 'em! 75 00:06:33,075 --> 00:06:34,857 Clear! Clear the... Clear the tier! 76 00:06:34,877 --> 00:06:36,862 Get outta here! Everybody! 77 00:06:40,427 --> 00:06:44,203 They wanna toss my cell, Jimmy. They're gonna find my manuscript. 78 00:06:44,375 --> 00:06:48,498 That book is the only thing I got left in here. 79 00:06:48,557 --> 00:06:52,586 You understand me? That's the only chance I got to get outta here. 80 00:06:53,147 --> 00:06:56,048 I lose that, they gonna lose too. 81 00:06:56,224 --> 00:06:59,509 Rubin, who do you think the first man through this door has gotta be now? 82 00:07:00,777 --> 00:07:02,179 It's me. 83 00:07:04,407 --> 00:07:05,413 - Listen- - All right. 84 00:07:05,432 --> 00:07:07,206 Tell 'em to come on in here and line 'em up. 85 00:07:07,225 --> 00:07:08,541 - What if- - Line 'em up, Jimmy. 86 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:10,729 Rubin, listen to me now. What if that manuscript... 87 00:07:10,747 --> 00:07:12,747 wasn't in this cell when we tossed it? 88 00:07:12,766 --> 00:07:15,131 What if it was stuffed down your pants or something... 89 00:07:15,150 --> 00:07:17,370 stuffed in your crotch, and we couldn't see it? 90 00:07:17,587 --> 00:07:20,197 I can make sure you weren't strip-searched, okay? 91 00:07:20,427 --> 00:07:22,324 Don't bullshit me. 92 00:07:22,637 --> 00:07:24,701 No bullshit. You have my word. 93 00:07:29,807 --> 00:07:32,187 Ain't nobody putting their hands on me, Jimmy. 94 00:07:32,307 --> 00:07:34,210 Ain't nobody gonna touch me. 95 00:07:34,857 --> 00:07:36,296 All right. 96 00:07:37,110 --> 00:07:38,756 Nobody touches you. 97 00:07:42,697 --> 00:07:44,888 You think I killed them people? 98 00:07:47,997 --> 00:07:49,642 I don't know, Rubin. 99 00:07:51,917 --> 00:07:53,521 I don't know. 100 00:08:57,437 --> 00:09:00,107 Shit. Motherfuckers. 101 00:09:03,607 --> 00:09:06,647 1-10. Suspect at 1059- 102 00:09:08,197 --> 00:09:10,074 - John, you been drinkin'? - No. No. 103 00:09:10,117 --> 00:09:12,607 All right. All right. Just relax. Let me handle this. 104 00:09:13,228 --> 00:09:14,935 Okay. 105 00:09:15,327 --> 00:09:18,230 - License and registration. - It's on the steering post. 106 00:09:18,296 --> 00:09:19,606 What's goin' on? 107 00:09:20,547 --> 00:09:22,318 Aw, shit, Hurricane. Didn't realize it was you. 108 00:09:22,377 --> 00:09:24,427 Yeah, it's me. What's goin' on, Theo? 109 00:09:24,547 --> 00:09:27,156 We're lookin' for two negroes in a white car. 110 00:09:27,507 --> 00:09:28,907 Any two will do? 111 00:09:29,509 --> 00:09:31,034 No. 112 00:09:41,027 --> 00:09:43,255 Oh, sh- 113 00:09:49,407 --> 00:09:50,971 Okay, get out. 114 00:09:53,747 --> 00:09:55,684 All right. Let's go. 115 00:09:58,497 --> 00:09:59,855 Come on. 116 00:10:10,387 --> 00:10:13,243 - Check his vitals. - It's clear. 117 00:10:13,677 --> 00:10:16,967 - Air passage. - Heart rate has changed. 118 00:10:17,097 --> 00:10:19,458 Keep the chin up. Keep the passage open. 119 00:10:20,767 --> 00:10:22,461 Can he talk, Doc? 120 00:10:23,917 --> 00:10:25,421 Just for a moment. 121 00:10:25,922 --> 00:10:27,507 Would you raise his head? 122 00:10:39,037 --> 00:10:40,979 Can you make out these two men? 123 00:10:41,771 --> 00:10:43,710 Are these the two men who shot you? 124 00:10:45,667 --> 00:10:47,296 Look carefully, sir. 125 00:10:48,653 --> 00:10:50,405 Are these the two men who did it? 126 00:10:57,387 --> 00:10:58,913 - He said no. - Move closer. 127 00:10:58,932 --> 00:11:00,832 - He said no. - Move closer! 128 00:11:11,237 --> 00:11:13,469 Take another look, sir. 129 00:11:16,907 --> 00:11:18,599 Son of a bitch. 130 00:11:19,827 --> 00:11:22,270 Sir, look closer. 131 00:11:22,827 --> 00:11:25,064 You sure these aren't the men? 132 00:11:26,127 --> 00:11:29,318 - Dirty son of a bitch. - Watch your mouth! 133 00:11:32,690 --> 00:11:35,574 - Same old shit, huh, Della Pesca? - Shut up! 134 00:11:37,180 --> 00:11:38,786 Ask him again. 135 00:11:40,057 --> 00:11:42,957 You been after me my whole life, Della Pesca. 136 00:11:44,307 --> 00:11:46,267 Now you're trying to pin a murder jacket on me, huh? 137 00:11:46,286 --> 00:11:49,213 Well, I got news for you. It don't fit. 138 00:11:50,897 --> 00:11:53,426 I'm gonna take your black ass down... 139 00:11:53,737 --> 00:11:55,727 Mr Fuckin' Champion of the World. 140 00:11:55,867 --> 00:11:58,995 I got your black fuckin' champion right between my legs... 141 00:11:59,014 --> 00:12:01,183 you short punk bitch. 142 00:12:01,407 --> 00:12:03,144 You try me. 143 00:12:03,787 --> 00:12:06,147 That's just what I'm gonna do. 144 00:13:44,496 --> 00:13:46,663 Hey, man, it's cold out here. 145 00:13:46,977 --> 00:13:48,910 What are you talkin' about? It's like summer for us. 146 00:13:48,977 --> 00:13:52,043 Yeah, well, I like the summers in Brooklyn better. 147 00:13:52,727 --> 00:13:55,380 Is all these people out here freezing their butts off to buy books? 148 00:13:55,607 --> 00:13:58,067 - That's right. - Lined up like this... 149 00:13:58,197 --> 00:14:00,267 not for a movie or a ball game or somethin'? 150 00:14:00,407 --> 00:14:03,555 - Ain't it great? - No, "isn't it."Isn't it great?" 151 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:05,749 Very good. I stand corrected, Les. 152 00:14:06,037 --> 00:14:08,768 Used books, books nobody wants any more. 153 00:14:08,957 --> 00:14:10,895 Aw, that's the great thing about books, you know. 154 00:14:10,914 --> 00:14:14,524 Once you use 'em, you can pass 'em along to somebody else like a torch... 155 00:14:14,810 --> 00:14:17,340 or a football, you know, something you pass. 156 00:14:17,507 --> 00:14:19,195 Okay, bring it on in. 157 00:14:19,797 --> 00:14:20,947 Put it down. 158 00:14:21,573 --> 00:14:23,157 Good, good. Down. 159 00:15:13,397 --> 00:15:16,127 Okay, young man, that'll be 25 cents. 160 00:15:17,107 --> 00:15:19,463 - Jesus. - Twenty-five cent? 161 00:15:19,947 --> 00:15:21,632 Mustn't be much of a book. 162 00:15:27,617 --> 00:15:29,765 So, Lesra, what'd you get? 163 00:15:29,947 --> 00:15:31,767 Uh, this. 164 00:15:32,327 --> 00:15:35,145 - What is it? - I don't know. It's about a boxer. 165 00:15:35,337 --> 00:15:38,774 It's got like 337 pages, though, you know. 166 00:15:39,047 --> 00:15:41,907 Well, it probably takes a lot of words to tell someone's life story, eh? 167 00:15:42,047 --> 00:15:43,904 - Don't you think? - Yeah, well, this guy must be... 168 00:15:43,923 --> 00:15:47,241 like 150 years old, you know, if he gon' use all these words. 169 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:49,849 You know what, Les? Sometimes we don't pick the books we read. 170 00:16:03,147 --> 00:16:05,967 Mr Broden, we've been home schooling this young man for eight months. 171 00:16:05,987 --> 00:16:07,677 That's how it applies to us. 172 00:16:08,197 --> 00:16:10,201 No, I'm not married. Mr Swinton, who you spoke with 173 00:16:10,220 --> 00:16:12,265 is one of the two men I live with. 174 00:16:12,537 --> 00:16:15,810 No, Sam Chaiton is the other man I live with. 175 00:16:16,207 --> 00:16:18,090 No, I don't think you do see, Mr Broden. 176 00:16:18,109 --> 00:16:20,270 They are my business partners and my roommates. 177 00:16:20,289 --> 00:16:21,909 And you're the Department of Education... 178 00:16:22,087 --> 00:16:25,207 and you're telling me you're prepared to stop this young man's education... 179 00:16:25,337 --> 00:16:28,740 because you can't find some goddam high school records? 180 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:41,753 Yep, that's exactly what I'm doing, Mr Broden. 181 00:16:43,737 --> 00:16:45,882 No, no, I'm not asking you to make an exception. 182 00:16:45,907 --> 00:16:48,364 I'm asking you to do your job, which is qualitatively different 183 00:16:48,383 --> 00:16:50,178 but I thank you for it anyway. 184 00:16:50,947 --> 00:16:51,670 Shit. 185 00:16:51,689 --> 00:16:54,641 Political Science 101, the art of gentle persuasion. 186 00:16:55,077 --> 00:16:57,685 Never mind 101. I need a smoke. 187 00:16:58,287 --> 00:17:00,438 - So how was the book sale? - Great. 188 00:17:01,337 --> 00:17:03,297 - There. - Did you get The Other America? 189 00:17:03,441 --> 00:17:05,818 Uh, I couldn't find The Other America, but I got you, uh- 190 00:17:05,837 --> 00:17:08,988 Sam Robertson Davies, R.D. Laing. 191 00:17:09,007 --> 00:17:11,417 - You don't want to piss me off today. - It's a book sale, Lisa, not a library. 192 00:17:11,436 --> 00:17:12,976 - Whatever. - Hey, look, Lisa. 193 00:17:13,110 --> 00:17:16,662 Got this one right here for 25 cent. The Sixteenth Round. 194 00:17:16,813 --> 00:17:19,039 - Oh, your first book, huh? - Yeah. 195 00:17:19,727 --> 00:17:21,967 "Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter." 196 00:17:24,937 --> 00:17:29,300 Hurricane is the professional name that I acquired later on in life. 197 00:17:29,777 --> 00:17:33,076 Carter is the slave name that was given to my forefathers 198 00:17:33,095 --> 00:17:36,567 who worked in the cotton fields of Alabama and, and Georgia... 199 00:17:36,707 --> 00:17:38,601 and was passed on to me. 200 00:17:39,370 --> 00:17:42,707 The kindest thing I can say about my childhood... 201 00:17:42,803 --> 00:17:44,774 is that I survived it. 202 00:17:45,257 --> 00:17:49,987 Paterson was a run-down town, a poor and violent place. 203 00:17:50,137 --> 00:17:52,747 The only way to survive was to know how to handle yourself... 204 00:17:52,887 --> 00:17:55,326 and I learned fast. 205 00:17:57,445 --> 00:17:59,079 Come on! Hurry up! 206 00:18:00,147 --> 00:18:01,615 - Let's get out of here! - Come on! Let's go! 207 00:18:01,633 --> 00:18:03,007 Hurry up! Let's get outta here! 208 00:18:09,567 --> 00:18:11,133 Take this out. 209 00:18:13,579 --> 00:18:15,846 Hey, Donnique, go for a swim! 210 00:18:21,424 --> 00:18:22,770 Hello, boys. 211 00:18:27,399 --> 00:18:29,151 Wanna see something? 212 00:18:31,507 --> 00:18:33,887 Huh? Isn't that pretty? 213 00:18:36,137 --> 00:18:37,534 You like that? 214 00:18:38,927 --> 00:18:41,177 - What's your name? - Donnique. 215 00:18:41,307 --> 00:18:42,664 Donnique? 216 00:18:43,977 --> 00:18:46,251 That's a pretty name, Donnique. 217 00:18:46,777 --> 00:18:48,503 You wanna be good to me, sugar? 218 00:18:48,987 --> 00:18:52,674 H-H-Hey, mister! Leave him alone! 219 00:18:53,306 --> 00:18:55,001 I wouldn't hurt your friend. 220 00:18:55,802 --> 00:18:57,006 Would I? 221 00:18:57,197 --> 00:19:01,099 You don't need to be afraid, Donnique. 222 00:19:02,037 --> 00:19:04,737 You're pretty. How old are you? 223 00:19:04,877 --> 00:19:06,277 - Ten. - Ten? 224 00:19:06,688 --> 00:19:08,947 I said, leave him alone! 225 00:19:11,627 --> 00:19:14,070 Run! Run! Come on! 226 00:19:15,797 --> 00:19:18,097 - Get outta here! - Run! 227 00:19:19,677 --> 00:19:21,480 You little bastard. 228 00:19:21,727 --> 00:19:23,413 Let's get outta here! 229 00:19:23,711 --> 00:19:26,207 You black bastard, you! Goddam it! 230 00:19:27,397 --> 00:19:29,942 Please, mister! Put me down! 231 00:19:29,961 --> 00:19:31,379 Shut up, you son of a bitch! 232 00:19:31,430 --> 00:19:33,965 - Put me down! - Do it or you're goin' over! 233 00:19:35,487 --> 00:19:36,760 Hey! 234 00:19:55,217 --> 00:19:57,405 - I didn't- didn't do nothin'! - Come on! Let's go! 235 00:19:57,433 --> 00:19:59,324 - I didn't- I didn't- - Shut up. 236 00:19:59,343 --> 00:20:01,303 I didn't do nothin'. 237 00:20:04,977 --> 00:20:06,655 - Come on, you- 238 00:20:06,926 --> 00:20:08,210 - No! 239 00:20:08,397 --> 00:20:09,876 Get in there. 240 00:20:09,968 --> 00:20:12,920 I-It wasn't me. 241 00:20:16,357 --> 00:20:19,051 I-I didn't do nothin'! 242 00:20:20,761 --> 00:20:22,429 Sit down, kid. 243 00:20:38,547 --> 00:20:40,156 What have we got here? 244 00:20:41,115 --> 00:20:42,908 It's a juvenile case. 245 00:20:43,137 --> 00:20:44,493 He's a kid, Sarge. 246 00:20:44,764 --> 00:20:46,704 He's only 11 years old. 247 00:20:50,357 --> 00:20:52,209 It's a nigger with a knife. 248 00:20:53,357 --> 00:20:55,212 I don't care how old he is. 249 00:20:56,647 --> 00:20:58,424 Take care of him. 250 00:21:02,197 --> 00:21:06,265 We know you were at the falls last week, and we know what happened. 251 00:21:06,827 --> 00:21:09,310 So you're gonna talk, you little son of a bitch. 252 00:21:09,919 --> 00:21:13,564 You'll be makin' speeches when I get through with your black ass. 253 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:15,816 Ralph. Ralph. 254 00:21:28,347 --> 00:21:31,165 I'm Sergeant Detective Della Pesca. 255 00:21:32,804 --> 00:21:34,751 You wanna tell me what happened? 256 00:21:39,809 --> 00:21:42,350 What is it, you were trying to rob this man's gold watch... 257 00:21:42,369 --> 00:21:46,304 and he fought back, and so you stabbed him? 258 00:21:46,997 --> 00:21:48,724 Is that pretty much it? 259 00:21:50,077 --> 00:21:53,947 I-I didn't do nothin'. 260 00:21:57,297 --> 00:21:59,818 Let me tell you something, sunshine. 261 00:22:00,717 --> 00:22:02,612 The man you stabbed... 262 00:22:03,007 --> 00:22:05,824 is a very important member of this community... 263 00:22:06,217 --> 00:22:09,337 and you are goin' down. 264 00:22:10,437 --> 00:22:11,663 Do you see? 265 00:22:11,755 --> 00:22:14,977 And I am gonna see to it personally. 266 00:22:17,607 --> 00:22:21,195 As for you, Rubin Carter, you're a menace to society. 267 00:22:21,214 --> 00:22:23,647 If something isn't done about you soon... 268 00:22:23,777 --> 00:22:25,718 you'll become a dangerous man in later life. 269 00:22:25,737 --> 00:22:29,097 I only wish you were old enough I could send you to state prison. 270 00:22:30,157 --> 00:22:32,183 I therefore sentence you... 271 00:22:32,457 --> 00:22:35,854 to the state home for boys in Jamesburg... 272 00:22:36,087 --> 00:22:39,441 from this day till you're 21 years of age. 273 00:22:39,646 --> 00:22:41,776 - So be it. - It's okay, son. 274 00:22:43,797 --> 00:22:47,198 Jamesburg was a place of horror that I would be forever sorry... 275 00:22:47,217 --> 00:22:49,284 to have known existed. 276 00:22:49,677 --> 00:22:53,454 It was there that I spent the next eight years learning how to maim... 277 00:22:53,687 --> 00:22:56,332 butcher and fight for my survival. 278 00:23:08,367 --> 00:23:10,972 I don't get what's goin' on here. I'm the boy's father. 279 00:23:11,157 --> 00:23:14,183 I take care of him. I don't know what you people- 280 00:23:14,976 --> 00:23:16,561 I mean, what's it to you? 281 00:23:18,127 --> 00:23:21,130 M-Mr Martin, we've gotten to know Lesra over the past few weeks. 282 00:23:21,149 --> 00:23:24,925 And I gotta tell you, he's got more natural ability and enthusiasm 283 00:23:24,944 --> 00:23:27,488 than just about any kid I've ever worked with. 284 00:23:28,621 --> 00:23:31,993 So, when he told us he wanted to go to college... 285 00:23:32,767 --> 00:23:34,954 we just figured that's the way it was gonna be. 286 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:37,498 Well, I know he's smart. 287 00:23:38,477 --> 00:23:40,626 There's no doubt about that, but, uh... 288 00:23:40,897 --> 00:23:42,920 he can't read, Mrs Martin. 289 00:23:44,317 --> 00:23:46,882 But we think that we could teach him. I mean, within... 290 00:23:46,947 --> 00:23:50,067 probably two years, with a lot of work, we could get him ready for college. 291 00:23:50,197 --> 00:23:51,545 Yeah, well, that school sure not doin' it. 292 00:23:51,563 --> 00:23:52,805 Now wait just a second. 293 00:23:52,947 --> 00:23:54,888 - I am that boy's father- - But if they can give him more- 294 00:23:54,907 --> 00:23:56,559 They're talkin' to me, Alma! 295 00:23:57,107 --> 00:24:00,085 Uh, Mr Martin, you know, we got plenty of room. 296 00:24:00,104 --> 00:24:02,648 And if Lesra wants to learn, then we can teach him. 297 00:24:03,127 --> 00:24:05,067 If you don't want that, that's fine. That's up to you. 298 00:24:05,087 --> 00:24:07,862 But no one here is trying to replace you, sir. 299 00:24:17,437 --> 00:24:19,039 This what you want, boy? 300 00:24:19,406 --> 00:24:21,208 I wanna go to college. 301 00:24:23,043 --> 00:24:25,629 And if that's what it's gonna take, then, yeah. 302 00:24:27,647 --> 00:24:29,341 It don't seem right. 303 00:24:38,747 --> 00:24:40,978 Why you gotta go, Lesra? 304 00:24:41,247 --> 00:24:42,646 Don't you want me to go, El? 305 00:24:42,697 --> 00:24:44,587 You should be here backin' me up. 306 00:24:44,707 --> 00:24:46,066 Leave the boy, Elston. 307 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:47,797 Lesra goin' to Toronto now. 308 00:24:47,917 --> 00:24:49,152 Got a job to do. 309 00:24:50,028 --> 00:24:51,597 Wants to go to college. 310 00:25:00,550 --> 00:25:04,251 After eight years at Jamesburg, I escaped. 311 00:25:05,067 --> 00:25:07,838 I was angry, embittered with life. 312 00:25:08,357 --> 00:25:10,757 I ran as if on a cloud... 313 00:25:11,067 --> 00:25:14,761 unaware of how high I was stepping or of anything else around me. 314 00:25:15,037 --> 00:25:18,431 There was room in my head for only one word... 315 00:25:18,707 --> 00:25:20,475 one thought: 316 00:25:21,877 --> 00:25:23,228 Freedom. 317 00:25:24,688 --> 00:25:28,867 I ran straight into the U.S. Army and a pair of paratrooper wings... 318 00:25:29,007 --> 00:25:30,827 and my whole life changed. 319 00:25:30,967 --> 00:25:33,363 I learned that knowledge of self and kind... 320 00:25:33,427 --> 00:25:36,507 is the only true means to the liberation of the black man. 321 00:25:36,637 --> 00:25:39,507 I could do anything. I overcame my stutter. 322 00:25:39,643 --> 00:25:42,645 I became a prizefighter. I came back to Paterson 323 00:25:42,664 --> 00:25:45,597 the all-Army European welterweight champ. 324 00:25:45,727 --> 00:25:47,419 Let me have a soda, please. 325 00:25:47,977 --> 00:25:51,673 Judy, who's that fine soldier standing over there at the bar? 326 00:25:59,037 --> 00:26:02,850 Oh, he's a local boy. Rubin Carter, I think. 327 00:26:09,707 --> 00:26:11,434 Make it two. 328 00:26:16,387 --> 00:26:19,887 - He's comin' over here. - Uh-oh. Stay cool. 329 00:26:26,437 --> 00:26:28,567 I'm back. I'm back. 330 00:26:28,687 --> 00:26:32,713 - Mmm, so you missed me, did you? - So tell me- 331 00:26:32,987 --> 00:26:34,438 Well, what do you want to know? 332 00:26:34,597 --> 00:26:35,726 You're in my seat. 333 00:26:37,907 --> 00:26:40,680 Uh, you know, I'm from Georgia. 334 00:26:40,699 --> 00:26:43,699 And I was thinkin' that afterwards you and me- 335 00:26:46,957 --> 00:26:48,938 You're in my seat, country. 336 00:26:50,207 --> 00:26:52,983 I don't see your name anywhere. 337 00:26:53,943 --> 00:26:56,571 That's 'cause you're blinded by the ass-kickin' I'm about to put on you. 338 00:26:56,587 --> 00:26:58,572 Now get up out of my seat. 339 00:27:00,217 --> 00:27:02,535 - Hey, come on now. Take it easy. - Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. 340 00:27:02,597 --> 00:27:04,961 - Calm down. Calm down. - Let that motherfucker go. 341 00:27:04,979 --> 00:27:06,038 Just stop it. Listen. 342 00:27:06,057 --> 00:27:07,239 - Not here. - You know what? I wanna dance. 343 00:27:07,257 --> 00:27:08,565 You wanna come over here and dance with me? 344 00:27:08,584 --> 00:27:10,617 - Not here. - Hey, I'm talkin' to you. 345 00:27:10,635 --> 00:27:11,566 Hmm? 346 00:27:11,585 --> 00:27:14,134 Oh, you wanna fight, or you wanna dance? 347 00:27:14,153 --> 00:27:16,674 - He ain't worth it. - Yeah, you wanna dance. Come on. 348 00:28:17,905 --> 00:28:21,488 And she was the prettiest woman I had ever seen. 349 00:28:31,397 --> 00:28:34,584 You got a girl around? 350 00:28:35,027 --> 00:28:38,088 No. I ain't got no girl. 351 00:28:38,647 --> 00:28:39,923 No? 352 00:28:42,367 --> 00:28:45,261 Well, I had a good time with you tonight. 353 00:28:48,077 --> 00:28:49,757 Mae Thelma, is that you? 354 00:28:49,775 --> 00:28:52,143 Yeah. Mama, I'll be right up. 355 00:28:54,145 --> 00:28:57,106 - You gon' call me tomorrow? - I'm gon' call you tonight. 356 00:28:57,167 --> 00:28:59,734 - No, you can't call me tonight now. - I'll call you tomorrow then. 357 00:28:59,757 --> 00:29:01,819 You'll call me tomorr- 358 00:29:05,507 --> 00:29:08,517 - Is that your father? - No. My father's asleep. 359 00:29:10,187 --> 00:29:12,967 - Your name Rubin Carter? - Yeah. 360 00:29:13,097 --> 00:29:14,332 You're comin' with us. 361 00:29:14,990 --> 00:29:16,042 For what? 362 00:29:16,477 --> 00:29:18,294 You heard the man. 363 00:29:26,277 --> 00:29:29,447 What'd you think, we weren't gonna find you? 364 00:29:32,147 --> 00:29:34,060 You still owe me time. 365 00:29:46,757 --> 00:29:50,047 104, meet Vice officers at Glory Park. 366 00:30:11,997 --> 00:30:13,390 All right. Get out. 367 00:30:16,997 --> 00:30:19,407 - This way now. - Okay. 368 00:30:27,887 --> 00:30:29,782 From that moment on... 369 00:30:30,057 --> 00:30:32,951 I decided to take control of my life. 370 00:30:33,477 --> 00:30:37,517 I made up my mind to turn my body into a weapon. 371 00:30:54,747 --> 00:30:57,157 I would be a warrior-scholar. 372 00:30:57,287 --> 00:30:59,603 I boxed. I went to school. 373 00:30:59,787 --> 00:31:04,024 I began reading W.E.B. DuBois, Richard Wright. 374 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:08,900 Move, tier one! Move it! 375 00:31:19,097 --> 00:31:21,807 So I gave up all the worthless luxuries... 376 00:31:21,937 --> 00:31:24,044 that most inmates crave- 377 00:31:24,187 --> 00:31:28,613 the girlie books, fags, cigarettes, the movies. 378 00:31:28,632 --> 00:31:29,883 I hated them. 379 00:31:30,558 --> 00:31:32,783 In fact, I hated everyone. I didn't even speak English. 380 00:31:32,802 --> 00:31:36,577 I spoke hate, and its verbs were fists. 381 00:31:42,537 --> 00:31:45,457 I made up my mind to turn my body... 382 00:31:45,587 --> 00:31:49,277 into a weapon that would eventually set me free... 383 00:31:49,547 --> 00:31:52,739 or kill anyone who sought to keep me in prison. 384 00:32:08,107 --> 00:32:11,216 On September 21, 1961... 385 00:32:11,487 --> 00:32:15,001 I was released, and I vowed upon everything holy... 386 00:32:15,020 --> 00:32:17,513 never to come back to prison again. 387 00:32:24,337 --> 00:32:28,066 I had spent almost half my time on this Earth... 388 00:32:28,297 --> 00:32:29,692 in jail. 389 00:32:49,187 --> 00:32:52,423 Hey, come on, Lesra. Time to get up. Breakfast, buddy. 390 00:32:53,357 --> 00:32:57,178 Yeah. Yeah, all right. Yeah, I'm up. I'm up. 391 00:32:58,679 --> 00:33:01,765 Did you get any sleep? Your light's been on all night. 392 00:33:03,267 --> 00:33:05,853 I just can't stop reading, man. This book's about my life. 393 00:33:06,957 --> 00:33:09,899 Jeez, Lisa, you gotta smoke for breakfast? 394 00:33:22,637 --> 00:33:24,404 Do you know when we met in Brooklyn? 395 00:33:26,433 --> 00:33:27,624 Yeah. 396 00:33:30,294 --> 00:33:32,004 Why'd you take me home? 397 00:33:35,067 --> 00:33:37,593 Well, you know, you- you met my folks, man... 398 00:33:37,907 --> 00:33:41,555 and you brought me up here, you did all this stuff for me. 399 00:33:42,577 --> 00:33:43,849 Yeah. 400 00:33:44,667 --> 00:33:46,185 No, I mean, why? 401 00:33:47,247 --> 00:33:48,729 Why'd you do all that? 402 00:33:49,605 --> 00:33:52,066 'Cause you were smart and funny. 403 00:33:53,167 --> 00:33:56,987 And short. You know, we figured it'd be good for you to... 404 00:33:57,418 --> 00:33:59,281 spend a little time with some tall white people. 405 00:33:59,427 --> 00:34:01,241 - Yeah, absolutely. - Yeah. 406 00:34:01,334 --> 00:34:03,285 What, did you do it 'cause I'm black? 407 00:34:03,477 --> 00:34:05,522 And you thought I couldn't do it myself? 408 00:34:07,147 --> 00:34:08,540 'Cause Rubin- 409 00:34:09,008 --> 00:34:11,251 Rubin did it all himself, you know. 410 00:34:11,857 --> 00:34:14,379 Hey, Les, we didn't feel sorry for you. 411 00:34:15,323 --> 00:34:18,072 We met you and got to know you and realized you could accomplish some things... 412 00:34:18,091 --> 00:34:21,344 and, like a lot of us, you could use some help. 413 00:34:23,287 --> 00:34:26,516 I'm sure that Hurricane Carter had some help along the way. 414 00:34:27,787 --> 00:34:31,021 - None of us does it alone. - Hey. 415 00:34:31,207 --> 00:34:34,983 As far as doin' it for yourself goes, nobody can learn anything for you. 416 00:34:35,757 --> 00:34:37,277 Trust me. 417 00:34:37,494 --> 00:34:40,118 Everything you're doing now, you're doing for yourself. 418 00:34:44,887 --> 00:34:46,244 I'll get it. 419 00:34:52,397 --> 00:34:54,777 - You know, I been thinkin'. - Yeah? 420 00:34:54,797 --> 00:34:56,245 How're you doing? 421 00:34:56,263 --> 00:34:57,922 About what? 422 00:34:58,157 --> 00:35:00,091 No, no, no, he's here. He just- 423 00:35:00,737 --> 00:35:04,387 Think I wanna put up a heavy bag. You know, like a big punching bag. 424 00:35:04,657 --> 00:35:06,931 Uh, those renovations? Probably the end of the month. 425 00:35:06,950 --> 00:35:09,790 - Oh, any special reason? - No. No, man. 426 00:35:09,809 --> 00:35:11,644 I just feel like punchin' something, you know? 427 00:35:12,337 --> 00:35:14,355 That's it. It's set. 428 00:35:16,417 --> 00:35:18,577 - A little low. A little low. - Keep your hand up. Keep the left down. 429 00:35:18,717 --> 00:35:22,322 Straight out of prison, I was a fighting machine. 430 00:35:22,507 --> 00:35:27,035 One thing I could do, and the only thing, was box. 431 00:35:27,517 --> 00:35:30,038 I had tasted my own blood... 432 00:35:30,557 --> 00:35:32,290 and I loved it. 433 00:35:38,784 --> 00:35:40,934 This is your ringside commentator. 434 00:35:41,250 --> 00:35:42,928 Tonight's fight brings together... 435 00:35:42,947 --> 00:35:46,387 Rubin "Hurricane" Carter from Paterson, New Jersey... 436 00:35:46,487 --> 00:35:49,777 and Joey Cooper, who is currently undefeated. 437 00:35:49,907 --> 00:35:51,877 Yeah! Way to go, Hurricane! 438 00:35:53,457 --> 00:35:55,313 Hit him! 439 00:35:59,283 --> 00:36:02,635 And the champion, Joey Cooper, seems to be helpless... 440 00:36:02,653 --> 00:36:05,364 against Rubin Carter, the challenger. 441 00:36:15,317 --> 00:36:16,834 Yeah! 442 00:36:20,857 --> 00:36:24,114 And I'll tell ya, folks, things are taking a surprising turn... 443 00:36:24,133 --> 00:36:26,317 in this middleweight fight tonight. 444 00:36:26,447 --> 00:36:29,787 Joey Cooper in big trouble. Rubin Carter pourin' it on. 445 00:36:29,907 --> 00:36:33,197 Left hook, right hook, uppercut- Oh! 446 00:36:50,217 --> 00:36:52,177 He's down. Oh, look at this. 447 00:36:52,307 --> 00:36:54,467 What a disaster for Cooper. 448 00:36:54,597 --> 00:36:58,750 Carter is punishing him. He's gonna- Oh, he is down, folks. 449 00:36:58,817 --> 00:37:02,026 He is down for the count, and he is not getting up. 450 00:37:02,045 --> 00:37:04,965 - Four, five, six... - I'll tell you that right now. 451 00:37:05,027 --> 00:37:06,416 - Get up! - Seven... 452 00:37:06,434 --> 00:37:07,428 Get up now! 453 00:37:07,447 --> 00:37:09,052 Right now! 454 00:37:09,657 --> 00:37:11,013 You're out! 455 00:37:12,407 --> 00:37:16,351 Unbelievable! Rubin Carter comes on like a hurricane... 456 00:37:16,417 --> 00:37:19,438 and defeats the undefeated Joey Cooper... 457 00:37:19,497 --> 00:37:22,274 in round one of this middleweight fight. 458 00:37:22,293 --> 00:37:24,735 - I don't believe it! Oh! - Unbelievable upset tonight. 459 00:37:24,927 --> 00:37:27,320 Have you ever seen anything like it? 460 00:37:27,717 --> 00:37:29,731 And the crowd is goin' wild here 461 00:37:29,749 --> 00:37:31,408 - in Reading, Pennsylvania. - You all right, Cooper? 462 00:37:31,426 --> 00:37:35,694 And Rubin Carter took this fight right away from him here this evening. 463 00:37:42,647 --> 00:37:46,256 Mrs Carter, what do you think it's gonna be like being married to such a ferocious fighter? 464 00:37:46,357 --> 00:37:48,208 - Well, uh- - Well, it's gonna be a little scary, 465 00:37:48,226 --> 00:37:50,218 but I'll try my best. 466 00:37:53,096 --> 00:37:55,487 Can you believe that black son of a bitch? 467 00:37:55,704 --> 00:37:59,978 He thinks he's champion of the world. Fighter of the year, my ass. 468 00:38:00,337 --> 00:38:02,022 A low-life criminal. 469 00:38:24,687 --> 00:38:25,989 What the hell do they expect? 470 00:38:29,487 --> 00:38:31,801 Every time we try to stand up and defend our own neighborhoods... 471 00:38:31,820 --> 00:38:34,204 they send the cops in to bust us in our heads. 472 00:38:36,577 --> 00:38:39,997 If you feel so strongly about all this, Hurricane, why aren't you out there... 473 00:38:40,127 --> 00:38:42,228 instead of sittin' in here drinkin'? 474 00:38:43,037 --> 00:38:44,888 I'm drinkin' club soda, first of all, 475 00:38:44,906 --> 00:38:47,287 and I'm in here because you asked me to be here. 476 00:38:47,650 --> 00:38:50,278 But you're right. Maybe I should go down there. 477 00:38:50,350 --> 00:38:53,383 Yeah, maybe I should go grab my gun, shoot me a half a dozen... 478 00:38:53,402 --> 00:38:55,491 of them nigger-hatin' cops, huh? 479 00:38:55,967 --> 00:38:57,159 What you think, Bucky? 480 00:38:57,239 --> 00:39:00,267 I know I can get me about five of 'em before they get me. 481 00:39:02,227 --> 00:39:04,250 Ed? Huh? 482 00:39:08,357 --> 00:39:10,089 How about you? You wanna come? 483 00:39:16,077 --> 00:39:17,304 Shit. 484 00:39:17,439 --> 00:39:19,432 That's off the record, by the way. 485 00:39:19,957 --> 00:39:22,309 Oh, he knows that. Don't you? 486 00:39:22,620 --> 00:39:24,979 Sure, champ. Sure. 487 00:39:27,890 --> 00:39:29,400 You betcha. 488 00:39:37,347 --> 00:39:39,837 - Take that, champ! - Get down. 489 00:39:43,977 --> 00:39:46,758 - Right here. - Rubin, what is this? 490 00:39:46,777 --> 00:39:49,261 - Get down, get down! Stay down! - Oh, Lord, what is- 491 00:39:49,279 --> 00:39:50,796 Let's get outta here! 492 00:40:00,579 --> 00:40:02,224 You all right, T.? 493 00:40:02,316 --> 00:40:05,101 Shh, it's okay. 494 00:40:05,377 --> 00:40:08,188 It's okay. It's okay. 495 00:40:08,207 --> 00:40:10,167 Shh. It's okay. 496 00:40:10,507 --> 00:40:13,235 All right, all right, all right, all right, all right. 497 00:40:13,627 --> 00:40:14,987 You all right? 498 00:40:15,162 --> 00:40:16,863 You know why they did this. 499 00:40:17,427 --> 00:40:20,200 Shh. All right. Come on, come on, come on, come on. 500 00:40:20,387 --> 00:40:21,910 I told you it was off the record. 501 00:40:22,003 --> 00:40:24,253 Nothin' with you is off the record! 502 00:40:24,272 --> 00:40:26,854 - Look, I don't want to go into it right now. - You ain't had no business talkin' to them people. 503 00:40:26,873 --> 00:40:28,429 - You know everything that you say... - All right, all right, all right, all right. 504 00:40:28,448 --> 00:40:30,056 - They gon' make up something different. - Mae, what you want me to do, huh? 505 00:40:30,075 --> 00:40:31,628 - What you want me to do? - Why do you say these things? 506 00:40:31,647 --> 00:40:32,661 I know what they doin'. 507 00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:34,214 - I know exactly what they doin'. - Are you trying to get us killed? 508 00:40:34,237 --> 00:40:36,883 So what you want me to do, huh? 509 00:40:37,237 --> 00:40:39,761 You want me to roll over and just lay dead? 510 00:40:40,827 --> 00:40:43,996 - Pride. It ain't nothin' but pride! - You're damn right it's pride. 511 00:40:44,015 --> 00:40:46,100 - I'm guilty. - Give me my baby. 512 00:40:48,417 --> 00:40:49,729 Shit. 513 00:41:05,307 --> 00:41:08,373 You will not be able to stay home, brother. 514 00:41:10,477 --> 00:41:14,045 You will not be able to plug in turn on and drop out. 515 00:41:14,487 --> 00:41:16,217 You will not be able to lose yourself 516 00:41:16,235 --> 00:41:18,646 on skag and skip out for beer during commercials. 517 00:41:18,665 --> 00:41:21,511 Because the revolution will not be televised. 518 00:41:24,117 --> 00:41:26,077 The revolution will not be televised. 519 00:41:26,207 --> 00:41:29,102 The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox and ball parks 520 00:41:29,121 --> 00:41:31,501 Without commercial interruptions. 521 00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:36,317 The revolution will not be right back after a message about a white tornado white lightning or white people. 522 00:41:36,616 --> 00:41:41,447 You will not have to worry about a dove in your bedroom, the tiger in your tank or the giant in your toilet bowl. 523 00:41:41,698 --> 00:41:44,047 The revolution will not go better with Coke. 524 00:41:44,130 --> 00:41:46,828 The revolution will not fight germs that may cause bad breath. 525 00:41:46,847 --> 00:41:49,747 - The revolution will put you in the driver's seat. - Break it up! Break it up! 526 00:41:49,766 --> 00:41:52,750 The revolution will not be televised. Will not be televised. 527 00:41:52,767 --> 00:41:55,097 Will not be televised. Will not be televised. 528 00:41:55,237 --> 00:41:59,090 The revolution won't be no rerun, brothers. The revolution will be live. 529 00:42:00,904 --> 00:42:05,162 Champion of the world! Champion of the world! 530 00:42:10,127 --> 00:42:11,852 Yeah, they're still out. 531 00:42:32,550 --> 00:42:36,383 I've seen a lot of things in my time, but it's taken 35 minutes... 532 00:42:36,410 --> 00:42:40,740 for these judges to tell us what this home town crowd already knows. 533 00:42:41,090 --> 00:42:44,327 Joey Giardello is about to the lose the crown... 534 00:42:44,447 --> 00:42:46,657 to Rubin "Hurricane" Carter. 535 00:42:54,463 --> 00:42:56,605 Ladies and gentlemen... 536 00:42:56,776 --> 00:42:59,186 it's a unanimous decision. 537 00:42:59,417 --> 00:43:03,904 The winner and still champion of the world... 538 00:43:04,126 --> 00:43:06,336 Joey Giardello! 539 00:43:06,757 --> 00:43:09,618 Giardello! 540 00:43:12,847 --> 00:43:15,249 No. No, no. No. No. 541 00:43:18,317 --> 00:43:20,462 Hey. What? 542 00:43:20,527 --> 00:43:23,447 - You've stolen it! - Aw, shit! 543 00:43:23,567 --> 00:43:25,884 - This is bullshit! - What's goin' on here? 544 00:43:28,310 --> 00:43:32,015 - Yes, yes! - Boo! 545 00:43:40,207 --> 00:43:43,568 Well, all I can say is these Philly judges... 546 00:43:43,587 --> 00:43:45,827 must have been watching a different fight... 547 00:43:45,903 --> 00:43:50,377 because in the one we just saw, Hurricane Carter took the title. 548 00:44:31,767 --> 00:44:34,276 Hey, Hurricane, how you doin'? 549 00:44:35,507 --> 00:44:36,704 Hey, champ. 550 00:44:48,737 --> 00:44:51,260 I did, unless Rubin's taking me home. 551 00:44:51,313 --> 00:44:53,883 Yeah, if I take you, it ain't gonna be home. 552 00:44:55,957 --> 00:44:58,476 Mr Carter. M-Mr Carter. 553 00:44:58,957 --> 00:45:02,021 - Headed 'cross town, Mr Carter? - Yeah. Why? You need a ride? 554 00:45:02,087 --> 00:45:04,398 - Wo- Would you mind? - No, I wouldn't mind. 555 00:45:04,417 --> 00:45:07,568 - All right! Okay. - Come on. 556 00:45:08,217 --> 00:45:10,404 - You drive. - Drive your car? 557 00:45:10,427 --> 00:45:12,907 - Come on. - Oh, shit! 558 00:45:13,177 --> 00:45:17,078 My friends are never gonna believe I was cruising with The Hurricane. 559 00:45:17,470 --> 00:45:20,155 You know, what we wanna know is, can we get his autograph? 560 00:45:20,173 --> 00:45:21,248 No. No, no. 561 00:45:23,777 --> 00:45:25,628 Oh, shit. 562 00:45:25,687 --> 00:45:27,505 Motherfuckers. 563 00:45:28,857 --> 00:45:31,008 - John, you been drinkin'? - No. - All right. 564 00:45:31,117 --> 00:45:33,107 All right, just relax. Let me handle this. 565 00:45:33,237 --> 00:45:34,595 All right. 566 00:45:35,827 --> 00:45:37,890 License and registration. 567 00:45:57,220 --> 00:45:58,869 It's okay. I got it. 568 00:45:59,454 --> 00:46:00,955 You guys come with me. 569 00:46:12,817 --> 00:46:16,897 B-E-L-L-O. Bello. 570 00:46:17,037 --> 00:46:20,867 Bradley. B-R-A-D-L-E-Y. 571 00:46:20,997 --> 00:46:22,351 Okay. 572 00:46:26,167 --> 00:46:28,065 Are those the guys? 573 00:46:29,297 --> 00:46:30,651 No? 574 00:46:33,007 --> 00:46:34,529 Okay, let's go. 575 00:46:44,557 --> 00:46:46,458 So what are you doing around here at that hour? 576 00:46:46,623 --> 00:46:49,113 Well, we was just out, you know, takin' a walk, right? 577 00:46:49,417 --> 00:46:51,671 Yeah. Just gettin' a pack of cigarettes. That's it. 578 00:46:51,690 --> 00:46:52,730 Yeah. 579 00:46:53,417 --> 00:46:55,217 Both of you are in big trouble. 580 00:46:56,577 --> 00:46:58,512 You're in violation of your parole. 581 00:46:59,617 --> 00:47:01,806 But I don't wanna talk about the burglary. 582 00:47:03,787 --> 00:47:06,519 We'll talk about your parole problem later, Bello. 583 00:47:08,457 --> 00:47:11,149 As far as I'm concerned... 584 00:47:12,127 --> 00:47:14,903 no proof a burglary really took place. 585 00:47:16,427 --> 00:47:17,864 See what I mean? 586 00:47:25,655 --> 00:47:27,332 Yeah, I see what you mean. 587 00:47:28,326 --> 00:47:30,626 I'm only interested in the facts in this case... 588 00:47:30,645 --> 00:47:33,754 and you and Bradley here are the only two people that can really help me out. 589 00:47:33,817 --> 00:47:35,089 Do you follow? 590 00:47:42,537 --> 00:47:43,681 Yeah, I follow. 591 00:47:43,815 --> 00:47:45,141 Good. 592 00:47:46,127 --> 00:47:50,688 Now, is there any scenario that you can imagine... 593 00:47:51,087 --> 00:47:54,692 in which you could be sure... 594 00:47:55,257 --> 00:47:58,321 really, positively sure... 595 00:47:58,340 --> 00:48:00,656 that the man you saw that night... 596 00:48:03,847 --> 00:48:05,953 was Rubin Carter? 597 00:48:22,088 --> 00:48:24,806 Yeah, Rubin Carter. Yeah. 598 00:48:25,657 --> 00:48:28,947 Wanna tell me again what happened? You were there having a drink? What was that? 599 00:48:29,077 --> 00:48:30,895 No, no, it was, uh- 600 00:48:31,337 --> 00:48:33,814 - I was goin' out for a pack of cigarettes. - Yeah. 601 00:48:34,690 --> 00:48:38,197 I heard a couple of shots, then I saw these two colored guys, they come out of the bar. 602 00:48:38,216 --> 00:48:39,945 And one of them was? 603 00:48:40,927 --> 00:48:42,988 - One of 'em was Rubin Carter. - Rubin Carter? 604 00:48:43,007 --> 00:48:45,307 - Right, Rubin Carter, the fighter. - Yeah, sure. 605 00:48:53,849 --> 00:48:55,586 All rise. 606 00:48:57,722 --> 00:49:01,800 The court will come to order. The Honorable Judge Larner presiding. 607 00:49:02,487 --> 00:49:03,636 Be seated. 608 00:49:11,377 --> 00:49:13,479 The defendants will rise. 609 00:49:19,127 --> 00:49:20,652 Rubin Carter... 610 00:49:21,169 --> 00:49:25,127 although you still contend you are not guilty of the crimes charged against you... 611 00:49:25,267 --> 00:49:29,828 you were afforded a full and fair trial by a jury of your peers. 612 00:49:32,767 --> 00:49:34,750 Have you reached a verdict? 613 00:49:38,027 --> 00:49:39,546 Yes, we have, Your Honor. 614 00:49:40,487 --> 00:49:43,687 We, the jury, find the defendants, Rubin Carter... 615 00:49:43,827 --> 00:49:46,993 and John Artis, guilty on all counts. 616 00:49:47,012 --> 00:49:49,097 Oh, no! 617 00:49:49,327 --> 00:49:51,090 No! 618 00:49:51,108 --> 00:49:52,747 That ain't right! He's innocent! 619 00:49:56,960 --> 00:49:58,907 - Order. - No! 620 00:49:59,047 --> 00:50:00,475 Order in the court. 621 00:50:00,493 --> 00:50:01,694 No! 622 00:50:02,467 --> 00:50:03,769 Order! 623 00:50:03,787 --> 00:50:06,417 - Bailiff will see to it that order prevails. - No! No! 624 00:50:06,550 --> 00:50:09,110 This ain't right. Railroaded! 625 00:50:14,392 --> 00:50:15,457 No. 626 00:50:15,749 --> 00:50:17,334 Rubin Carter... 627 00:50:17,647 --> 00:50:19,294 John Artis... 628 00:50:20,187 --> 00:50:22,897 for the murder of James Oliver, it is the court's sentence... 629 00:50:22,916 --> 00:50:26,301 that you be imprisoned for the remainder of your natural life. 630 00:50:26,367 --> 00:50:28,327 No! 631 00:50:28,346 --> 00:50:31,014 On the second count, the murder of Fred Nauyaks... 632 00:50:31,367 --> 00:50:34,976 you are sentenced to be imprisoned for the remainder of your natural life. 633 00:50:35,207 --> 00:50:37,291 No, God, no! 634 00:50:37,310 --> 00:50:41,941 As to the third count involving the murder of Hazel Tanis... 635 00:50:42,851 --> 00:50:45,445 it is the sentence of this court that you be imprisoned... 636 00:50:45,464 --> 00:50:48,156 for the remainder of your natural life. 637 00:51:02,277 --> 00:51:04,213 Okay, Carter, let's go. 638 00:51:05,027 --> 00:51:06,340 Take it easy. 639 00:51:07,117 --> 00:51:08,509 You're a tough guy. 640 00:51:11,946 --> 00:51:14,724 He thinks he's gonna stay in a room, and that's it. 641 00:51:18,423 --> 00:51:20,077 Put your clothes, your shoes, your ring, 642 00:51:20,095 --> 00:51:22,982 your watch and whatever else you've got in that bag. 643 00:51:23,717 --> 00:51:27,945 You are being issued a standard inmate uniform with your number sewn on it... 644 00:51:27,967 --> 00:51:30,239 so that we can identify you immediately. 645 00:51:31,467 --> 00:51:34,160 And you'll go to have your facial hair shaved. You know the rules. 646 00:51:35,437 --> 00:51:37,413 No, I can't do it, Warden. 647 00:51:39,206 --> 00:51:40,874 I beg your pardon? 648 00:51:41,375 --> 00:51:43,002 I cannot do it. 649 00:51:44,190 --> 00:51:48,716 Look, you have legal custody over my body... 650 00:51:49,401 --> 00:51:50,593 but I'm innocent. 651 00:51:51,487 --> 00:51:53,137 I've committed no crime. 652 00:51:53,637 --> 00:51:55,897 The crime's been committed against me. 653 00:51:57,374 --> 00:52:00,917 And I will not wear the clothes of a guilty man. 654 00:52:00,936 --> 00:52:04,523 Now, I'll go anywhere you want me to go in this penitentiary, Warden... 655 00:52:04,894 --> 00:52:08,402 but you let it be known in no uncertain terms... 656 00:52:08,986 --> 00:52:12,323 that any man who tries to put his hands on me- 657 00:52:14,347 --> 00:52:17,369 This place is where we tell you the rules. 658 00:52:18,137 --> 00:52:19,204 You hear that? 659 00:52:22,397 --> 00:52:24,293 Do you understand me? 660 00:52:25,487 --> 00:52:26,628 Do you? 661 00:52:28,147 --> 00:52:29,590 Because if you do, 662 00:52:30,090 --> 00:52:32,397 you had better strip right now... 663 00:52:32,527 --> 00:52:34,845 and put on that fucking uniform. 664 00:52:42,247 --> 00:52:43,895 I can't do that. 665 00:52:47,377 --> 00:52:49,026 Put this man in the hole. 666 00:52:50,170 --> 00:52:52,780 Give him sufficient time to reflect... 667 00:52:52,799 --> 00:52:55,616 on how he intends to behave in this institution. 668 00:52:57,767 --> 00:52:59,411 Ninety days. 669 00:53:21,707 --> 00:53:24,227 Hey, Bobby, we've got another one for ya. 670 00:53:42,187 --> 00:53:43,705 I like your suit. 671 00:54:49,881 --> 00:54:52,565 Three, two... 672 00:54:53,007 --> 00:54:54,316 one. 673 00:54:55,927 --> 00:54:57,528 Lights-out. 674 00:55:00,217 --> 00:55:01,574 You see? 675 00:55:01,967 --> 00:55:07,807 "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil." 676 00:55:07,937 --> 00:55:09,331 There's doubt. 677 00:55:10,227 --> 00:55:13,677 The shadow is doubt. The shadow is doubt. 678 00:55:15,817 --> 00:55:17,589 But you're not gonna get me. 679 00:55:18,725 --> 00:55:20,676 You're not gonna get me. 680 00:55:20,791 --> 00:55:22,219 Lights-out. 681 00:55:26,577 --> 00:55:28,725 What the fuck are you talkin' about? 682 00:55:29,167 --> 00:55:31,770 You can't break me 'cause you didn't make me. 683 00:55:32,243 --> 00:55:33,721 You understand? 684 00:55:34,652 --> 00:55:36,108 Huh? 685 00:55:42,072 --> 00:55:46,618 You fucked everything up for everybody, Rubin. It's all fucked-up. 686 00:55:53,017 --> 00:55:54,751 Who's that? 687 00:55:57,397 --> 00:56:00,090 Y'all ain't got no speakers in here. Who is that? 688 00:56:03,327 --> 00:56:06,847 I put us into this situation any goddam way... 689 00:56:07,407 --> 00:56:08,974 motherfucker. 690 00:56:09,767 --> 00:56:13,895 I done fucked everything up for everybody. You know, that shit that's all fucked up. 691 00:56:14,457 --> 00:56:16,764 What the fuck you expect us to do now, huh? 692 00:56:17,780 --> 00:56:19,037 Motherfucker. 693 00:56:24,235 --> 00:56:26,950 I'm s- I'm s- I'm scared. 694 00:56:30,687 --> 00:56:34,977 Just shut up. Shut the fuck up, you little skinny motherfucker. 695 00:56:35,107 --> 00:56:38,002 You think your father used to beat your little stuttering ass? 696 00:56:38,021 --> 00:56:40,421 Don't make me jump over there on ya. 697 00:56:41,447 --> 00:56:42,966 No, you shut up. 698 00:56:43,100 --> 00:56:45,010 Just shut the fuck up, talkin' to me. 699 00:56:45,149 --> 00:56:47,848 Fuck you talkin' to? You ain't- You ain't telling me what to say. 700 00:56:47,867 --> 00:56:49,305 I'm running shit around here. 701 00:56:49,889 --> 00:56:52,377 Fuck is wrong? Ain't nobody runnin' shit. I'm runnin' shit. 702 00:56:52,497 --> 00:56:54,060 Shut the fuck up! 703 00:56:59,797 --> 00:57:01,025 What you say? 704 00:57:02,837 --> 00:57:04,487 No. No. 705 00:57:06,467 --> 00:57:08,533 What are we gonna do now? 706 00:57:10,677 --> 00:57:11,828 Huh? 707 00:57:14,187 --> 00:57:15,873 I don't know what. 708 00:57:17,147 --> 00:57:19,752 Shit, ain't nobody touchin' me. No goddam soul touchin' me. 709 00:57:19,777 --> 00:57:23,048 Put your hands on me not twice. You better not put your fuckin' hands on me. 710 00:57:23,067 --> 00:57:24,841 - I got- - Shut up! 711 00:57:47,847 --> 00:57:52,952 Oh, yeah. There's our man. I can feel the hate. Can you feel it? 712 00:57:53,137 --> 00:57:57,217 You can feel the hate, Rubin. Don't you wanna just hurt somebody? 713 00:57:57,357 --> 00:57:59,667 I feel like I wanna kill somebody... 714 00:57:59,897 --> 00:58:01,669 'cept there ain't nobody in here to kill. 715 00:58:04,987 --> 00:58:06,674 'Cept you, boy. 716 00:58:08,947 --> 00:58:10,636 How 'bout it, Rube? 717 00:58:14,657 --> 00:58:16,600 Get away from me! 718 00:58:51,277 --> 00:58:53,428 All right, Carter. Time's up. 719 00:59:33,257 --> 00:59:35,262 Jesus Christ. 720 00:59:37,747 --> 00:59:39,516 You could really use a shower. 721 00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:44,979 You smell awful, Mr Carter. Why don't you take a shower? 722 00:59:45,337 --> 00:59:47,816 Get you a decent cell with a bed and some food. 723 00:59:48,927 --> 00:59:50,110 You'll feel a lot better. 724 00:59:50,244 --> 00:59:52,112 At what price do I, uh... 725 00:59:52,677 --> 00:59:54,364 take this shower? 726 00:59:55,156 --> 00:59:56,324 What do you mean? 727 00:59:56,616 --> 00:59:58,409 I mean, what do I put on... 728 00:59:58,677 --> 01:00:01,887 after I take this shower that's gonna make me feel so good? 729 01:00:04,647 --> 01:00:07,365 What everyone else puts on. That's the rule. 730 01:00:07,426 --> 01:00:12,590 Yeah, well, you can just take me on back down to the hole. 731 01:00:21,367 --> 01:00:23,142 You could die down there. 732 01:00:24,167 --> 01:00:26,437 I could die up here too. 733 01:00:29,467 --> 01:00:33,457 Look, what if I got you a pair of pajamas from the prison hospital? 734 01:00:34,927 --> 01:00:37,782 As far as I'm concerned, you'd be wearing prison-issued clothing. 735 01:00:46,668 --> 01:00:48,125 They got stripes? 736 01:00:48,977 --> 01:00:50,086 No stripes. 737 01:00:50,386 --> 01:00:51,920 What 'bout numbers? 738 01:00:52,107 --> 01:00:53,214 No numbers. 739 01:00:53,348 --> 01:00:54,757 What color are they? 740 01:00:55,777 --> 01:00:57,259 They're white. 741 01:01:04,917 --> 01:01:07,686 Okay, I can live with those. 742 01:01:09,207 --> 01:01:10,606 Thank you, Mr Carter. 743 01:01:11,699 --> 01:01:14,610 You're welcome, Mr Williams. 744 01:01:15,337 --> 01:01:16,946 Shower's all yours. 745 01:01:26,017 --> 01:01:27,414 Thank you. 746 01:01:28,857 --> 01:01:32,437 It came to me as kind of a revelation that my own freedom... 747 01:01:32,567 --> 01:01:37,382 lay in not wanting or needing anything of which they could deprive me. 748 01:01:37,657 --> 01:01:41,261 If punishment consisted of being locked in your cell... 749 01:01:41,596 --> 01:01:44,723 then by simply choosing to never leave my cell... 750 01:01:44,826 --> 01:01:47,058 I deprived them of that weapon. 751 01:01:47,133 --> 01:01:48,801 I would not work in their shops. 752 01:01:48,879 --> 01:01:50,354 I would not eat their food. 753 01:01:50,707 --> 01:01:52,189 I began to study. 754 01:01:52,393 --> 01:01:55,651 I dissected my entire case piece by piece... 755 01:01:55,790 --> 01:01:59,488 beginning with my initial arrest through the trial itself... 756 01:01:59,590 --> 01:02:01,907 and finally to the awful verdict. 757 01:02:03,408 --> 01:02:06,851 I didn't get a trial free from constitutional error and racial prejudice. 758 01:02:06,870 --> 01:02:08,789 He knows that. You know it. 759 01:02:09,187 --> 01:02:11,416 That's not helpin' me in here, Myron. 760 01:02:11,647 --> 01:02:12,751 Look. 761 01:02:12,927 --> 01:02:15,879 Look, I'm innocent, that's why. 762 01:02:16,737 --> 01:02:18,924 Seven years! You're goddam right it's seven years! 763 01:02:18,943 --> 01:02:22,533 Just get me outta here. I want a new trial. Okay? 764 01:02:24,750 --> 01:02:28,228 The people united will never be defeated. 765 01:02:28,433 --> 01:02:32,237 The people united will never be defeated. 766 01:02:32,376 --> 01:02:35,648 The people united will never be defeated. 767 01:02:35,720 --> 01:02:37,680 The people united- 768 01:02:38,049 --> 01:02:41,667 It shows that there's still hope. 769 01:02:41,807 --> 01:02:45,227 There is hope for change in America. 770 01:02:45,347 --> 01:02:47,975 I believe in law and order, and I believe that everybody 771 01:02:47,994 --> 01:02:50,538 has a right to, uh, get another trial. 772 01:03:14,207 --> 01:03:15,605 They ain't givin' up. 773 01:03:15,697 --> 01:03:17,827 They said they're gonna demonstrate again. 774 01:03:17,967 --> 01:03:21,217 Muhammad Ali and- and Ellen Burstyn. Bob Dylan. 775 01:03:21,337 --> 01:03:23,363 - Everybody. - That's good, Mae. 776 01:03:23,847 --> 01:03:24,989 Everybody. 777 01:03:29,847 --> 01:03:31,871 Look, Mae, uh... 778 01:03:32,727 --> 01:03:35,041 we've already lost two trials, and 779 01:03:35,217 --> 01:03:37,857 now they've turned down my request for an appeal. 780 01:03:43,447 --> 01:03:46,427 I'm sorry. It, uh- It's over. 781 01:03:46,797 --> 01:03:48,346 It's finished. 782 01:03:50,617 --> 01:03:52,892 I'm gonna die in here, Mae, so- 783 01:03:53,377 --> 01:03:55,394 Baby, listen, there is still a chance. 784 01:03:55,413 --> 01:03:57,813 - Now, all we have to do is hang on. - Listen to me now. 785 01:03:57,832 --> 01:03:59,899 There's nothin' to hang on to. 786 01:04:02,037 --> 01:04:04,653 I want you to divorce me, understand? 787 01:04:05,970 --> 01:04:08,740 And I don't want you to come back down here. 788 01:04:10,847 --> 01:04:11,947 No. 789 01:04:12,328 --> 01:04:14,128 - No, now you listen to me. - Mae, don't make- don't make this- 790 01:04:14,147 --> 01:04:16,730 There- There are still things that we can do. 791 01:04:16,749 --> 01:04:20,338 - We just gotta get you out of here. - I am not gonna be a weight hanging around your neck. 792 01:04:20,357 --> 01:04:24,173 - You are no weight around my neck! - Well, then you're a weight around mine. 793 01:04:27,197 --> 01:04:29,470 Now, I can't do all the years I gotta do in here... 794 01:04:29,497 --> 01:04:33,724 knowin' that they can take your beautiful face away from me anytime they want to. 795 01:04:34,117 --> 01:04:35,309 You understand? 796 01:04:36,310 --> 01:04:37,737 Rubin. 797 01:04:37,877 --> 01:04:40,731 I ain't walkin' away from you. 798 01:04:48,677 --> 01:04:50,199 I'm dead. 799 01:04:54,017 --> 01:04:57,206 - Rubin. - Just bury me, please. 800 01:05:01,187 --> 01:05:02,586 Rubin? 801 01:05:06,067 --> 01:05:07,257 Rubin. 802 01:05:07,775 --> 01:05:11,567 Rubin, we're- we're in this together now. We just gotta hang on. 803 01:05:11,697 --> 01:05:12,721 Guard. 804 01:05:14,457 --> 01:05:15,682 Rubin. 805 01:05:17,392 --> 01:05:18,560 Rubin? 806 01:05:20,127 --> 01:05:22,355 We just gotta hang on. 807 01:05:23,917 --> 01:05:26,109 We just gotta hang on. 808 01:05:33,700 --> 01:05:37,037 I will bend time to my own clock. 809 01:05:37,687 --> 01:05:39,847 When the prisoners awake, I will sleep. 810 01:05:39,977 --> 01:05:42,709 When they sleep, I will wake. 811 01:05:43,107 --> 01:05:46,254 I will live neither in their cell... 812 01:05:46,817 --> 01:05:48,923 nor in my own heart... 813 01:05:50,327 --> 01:05:52,302 only in my mind... 814 01:05:53,537 --> 01:05:55,805 and my spirit. 815 01:05:56,287 --> 01:05:59,037 "Once I reached my hand out for help. 816 01:05:59,167 --> 01:06:01,686 It came down and then withered... 817 01:06:01,830 --> 01:06:06,107 as dry grass blown away into dust leaving nothin'. 818 01:06:06,377 --> 01:06:09,861 Now I wait for nothin'. I need nothin'. 819 01:06:10,087 --> 01:06:14,657 Not tomorrow, not freedom, not justice. 820 01:06:14,927 --> 01:06:18,453 In the end, the prison will vanish... 821 01:06:19,285 --> 01:06:21,247 and there'll be no more Rubin... 822 01:06:22,857 --> 01:06:24,417 no more Carter... 823 01:06:25,277 --> 01:06:27,211 only The Hurricane. 824 01:06:28,317 --> 01:06:29,714 And after him... 825 01:06:31,197 --> 01:06:32,842 there is no more." 826 01:06:38,973 --> 01:06:40,600 Man, what are we gonna do? 827 01:06:41,537 --> 01:06:42,810 About what? 828 01:06:43,186 --> 01:06:44,854 About The Hurricane, that's what. 829 01:06:45,587 --> 01:06:48,232 Well, there's not much we can do, Lesra. 830 01:06:48,941 --> 01:06:53,537 B- But the man's innocent, yet he's been in jail 15, 16 years. That's not right. 831 01:06:55,097 --> 01:06:57,232 I know that's what his book says. 832 01:06:57,742 --> 01:06:59,458 Uh, two juries found him guilty, Les. 833 01:06:59,477 --> 01:07:00,764 Yeah, two white juries. 834 01:07:00,782 --> 01:07:03,007 Hey, hey, not all white people are racists. 835 01:07:03,026 --> 01:07:04,832 Not all black people are murderers. 836 01:07:15,664 --> 01:07:18,221 Look, I just- I just want to write him a letter... 837 01:07:18,604 --> 01:07:21,057 and tell him how much his book meant to me, that's all. 838 01:08:00,233 --> 01:08:02,233 if you want him to write you back. 839 01:08:05,436 --> 01:08:08,231 Yeah. Yeah, write me back. 840 01:08:08,587 --> 01:08:10,230 Yeah, that's cool. 841 01:08:13,007 --> 01:08:14,526 No problem. 842 01:08:29,897 --> 01:08:31,717 I read your book... 843 01:08:31,857 --> 01:08:36,187 and I really felt sad about what happened to you. 844 01:08:37,617 --> 01:08:41,636 I want you to know how much your book meant to me. 845 01:09:48,244 --> 01:09:50,955 It's here! Hey, he wrote us back! It's here! 846 01:09:50,974 --> 01:09:52,373 It's here! He wrote us back! 847 01:09:52,533 --> 01:09:53,874 Home of the brave! 848 01:09:54,107 --> 01:09:56,377 Land of the free! He wrote us back! 849 01:09:56,677 --> 01:09:58,245 Can you stand it? 850 01:09:58,713 --> 01:10:00,381 Well, open it already. 851 01:10:00,697 --> 01:10:02,967 I don't know. You think I should? 852 01:10:13,354 --> 01:10:14,979 "Dear Lesra... 853 01:10:15,587 --> 01:10:18,649 please forgive the seemingly tardy reply... 854 01:10:19,337 --> 01:10:22,653 but he who bemoans the lack of opportunity... 855 01:10:22,887 --> 01:10:27,967 forgets that small doors many times open up into large rooms. 856 01:10:30,807 --> 01:10:35,124 It was not only thoughtful, but insightful on your part. 857 01:10:35,477 --> 01:10:39,503 Stamps, paper and envelopes... 858 01:10:39,777 --> 01:10:43,277 were exactly what was needed to complete this transmission. 859 01:10:45,927 --> 01:10:51,348 Your letter, feelings, concerns, desires and warmth... 860 01:10:51,417 --> 01:10:53,817 literally jumped off the page at me... 861 01:10:53,957 --> 01:10:56,562 when reading your heartfelt message. 862 01:10:56,797 --> 01:10:59,189 It is as if you heard my thoughts... 863 01:10:59,417 --> 01:11:01,775 and reached out to share yours with me... 864 01:11:01,967 --> 01:11:04,444 at a moment when I can hear you. 865 01:11:06,097 --> 01:11:08,115 So thank you once again. 866 01:11:08,177 --> 01:11:09,992 Forever... 867 01:11:11,137 --> 01:11:13,161 your friend and brother... 868 01:11:15,767 --> 01:11:18,147 Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter." 869 01:11:21,067 --> 01:11:22,379 Wow. 870 01:11:24,172 --> 01:11:25,697 You got your answer. 871 01:11:28,137 --> 01:11:29,511 Yeah. 872 01:11:30,679 --> 01:11:32,266 Dear Rubin... 873 01:11:34,037 --> 01:11:37,144 I've been thinking about my life compared to yours. 874 01:11:38,457 --> 01:11:41,189 I come from Bushwick in Brooklyn. 875 01:11:41,587 --> 01:11:45,819 My parents are alcoholics and my brother's in prison. 876 01:11:46,694 --> 01:11:49,781 I was third in my class, and I couldn't even read. 877 01:11:50,217 --> 01:11:52,826 I couldn't write you this letter just a year ago... 878 01:11:54,244 --> 01:11:58,665 but then I met these friends from Canada when I had a summer job at the EPA. 879 01:11:59,804 --> 01:12:03,044 They offered to educate me and they got me out. 880 01:12:05,357 --> 01:12:09,509 Sometimes I feel guilty about my family 'cause I left 'em behind. 881 01:12:10,157 --> 01:12:13,346 Now that I know you, I know it isn't right. 882 01:12:14,957 --> 01:12:17,392 I shouldn't cry about my own feelings... 883 01:12:18,287 --> 01:12:20,353 not if you can do what you've done. 884 01:12:21,417 --> 01:12:23,189 I've been thinkin' though. 885 01:12:23,587 --> 01:12:27,235 I would like to come and visit you, if that will be all right. 886 01:13:10,637 --> 01:13:13,197 Palm down, right hand. Keep the line moving. 887 01:13:13,217 --> 01:13:15,604 - Put your right hand out, please. Palm down. - Keep the line moving. 888 01:13:15,637 --> 01:13:17,868 - Keep the line moving, please. - Come on. Come on. 889 01:13:20,924 --> 01:13:22,415 Okay, now. 890 01:13:28,147 --> 01:13:29,547 Y'all listen up now. 891 01:13:29,722 --> 01:13:33,050 Visits for Jones, Taylor, Harris, Ramos... 892 01:13:33,077 --> 01:13:36,720 Sykes, Carter, Tucei, line up right here. 893 01:13:37,054 --> 01:13:39,197 Uh, you didn't call my boy's name. 894 01:13:39,216 --> 01:13:42,014 Hemmings. Eric Hemmings, 65660. 895 01:13:42,207 --> 01:13:44,103 - Hemmings? - Yeah. 896 01:13:44,467 --> 01:13:48,065 Uh-uh, no visit for Hemmings today. He's in lockup. 897 01:13:48,484 --> 01:13:52,778 - Okay, Mac, open it up. - Keep out of the way. 898 01:14:05,989 --> 01:14:07,200 Extend your arms. 899 01:14:07,501 --> 01:14:09,753 Palms. Turn around. 900 01:14:09,987 --> 01:14:11,338 Show me your feet. 901 01:14:11,556 --> 01:14:12,965 Okay, spread 'em. 902 01:14:13,382 --> 01:14:14,383 Next. 903 01:14:19,821 --> 01:14:21,089 Open your mouth. 904 01:14:21,875 --> 01:14:23,476 Roll your tongue. 905 01:14:23,892 --> 01:14:25,310 Extend your arms. 906 01:14:26,895 --> 01:14:28,230 Show me your palms. 907 01:14:28,730 --> 01:14:29,814 Turn around. 908 01:14:31,677 --> 01:14:32,984 Show me your feet. 909 01:14:34,177 --> 01:14:35,404 Spread 'em. 910 01:14:36,637 --> 01:14:38,240 Ready on the outside! 911 01:14:40,597 --> 01:14:43,203 Okay, come on. Single file, y'all. 912 01:14:43,517 --> 01:14:46,289 Let's go. Single file. 913 01:14:47,107 --> 01:14:49,000 Hey, sweetheart! 914 01:14:49,817 --> 01:14:51,127 Single file. 915 01:14:52,436 --> 01:14:54,422 Let's go. Single file. 916 01:14:57,867 --> 01:14:59,219 You look nice. 917 01:15:32,141 --> 01:15:33,461 Mr Carter? 918 01:15:34,947 --> 01:15:37,882 - Rubin "Hurricane" Carter. Is that you? - Mm-hmm. 919 01:15:39,801 --> 01:15:41,919 I'm sorry, you don't look like your pictures. I thought you'd be bigger. 920 01:15:41,937 --> 01:15:43,555 Hey, I'm bigger than you. 921 01:15:45,667 --> 01:15:47,558 But don't tell anybody, okay? 922 01:15:48,360 --> 01:15:49,852 All- All right. 923 01:15:51,457 --> 01:15:53,231 Okay. Sit down. 924 01:16:04,659 --> 01:16:07,287 - Hey, this is some place, man. - No. 925 01:16:07,605 --> 01:16:09,716 No, it's not. This is no place, 926 01:16:10,957 --> 01:16:12,167 not for a human being. 927 01:16:12,187 --> 01:16:14,627 Don't ever get used to a place like this, Lesra. 928 01:16:16,147 --> 01:16:17,922 You got a lot of guts, kid. 929 01:16:19,947 --> 01:16:23,010 Takes a lot of courage to come all the way down here by yourself. 930 01:16:23,761 --> 01:16:25,304 I'm impressed. 931 01:16:26,367 --> 01:16:28,253 I was scared you weren't gonna let me come. 932 01:16:28,473 --> 01:16:29,933 Me too. 933 01:16:31,247 --> 01:16:33,521 But you're Rubin "Hurricane" Carter. What would you be scared of? 934 01:16:33,540 --> 01:16:37,210 Well, doors opening, of the light outside... 935 01:16:38,717 --> 01:16:39,944 of you. 936 01:16:40,847 --> 01:16:42,279 - Me? - Mm-hmm. 937 01:16:43,217 --> 01:16:45,788 - Mr Carter, I don't understand. - Oh, no, no, no, don't call me Mr Carter. 938 01:16:45,807 --> 01:16:46,892 Call me Rube. 939 01:16:47,952 --> 01:16:50,413 - Rube? - Yeah. Rube. 940 01:16:53,477 --> 01:16:55,717 All right. Rube. 941 01:16:57,647 --> 01:17:00,923 So, tell me about these folks you're livin' with. 942 01:17:01,157 --> 01:17:02,466 - Oh, the Canadians. - Yes. 943 01:17:02,558 --> 01:17:03,727 Yeah, I got pictures of 'em. 944 01:17:03,867 --> 01:17:05,010 Here. 945 01:17:07,117 --> 01:17:10,682 This is Sam, this is Terry, and this is Lisa. 946 01:17:10,877 --> 01:17:13,247 - They're the greatest, man. - Huh. 947 01:17:13,266 --> 01:17:16,813 Yeah, I met 'em at an EPA in Brooklyn, and, you know, they was doin' business. 948 01:17:17,207 --> 01:17:18,732 They brought me home and stuff, 949 01:17:18,866 --> 01:17:20,650 and the rest is what happened, man. 950 01:17:21,007 --> 01:17:23,403 Yeah, that's when my life changed, Rube. 951 01:17:24,137 --> 01:17:27,240 Just yanked a brother up and took him up to Canada, just like that? 952 01:17:27,477 --> 01:17:29,034 No, no, they asked my folks. 953 01:17:30,187 --> 01:17:32,996 I see. So what do they do? Are they a religious group... 954 01:17:33,015 --> 01:17:35,412 or, uh, hippies or a commune or- 955 01:17:35,817 --> 01:17:38,460 No, they fix up houses and sell 'em. You know? 956 01:17:38,877 --> 01:17:40,962 - They're just people. - Just people. 957 01:17:40,981 --> 01:17:43,507 Just workin', eatin', livin' together? 958 01:17:44,527 --> 01:17:47,567 I don't know. This is what they do, man. That's their thing. 959 01:17:47,697 --> 01:17:51,056 - What'd your folks say? - Oh, well, my dad, you know, he's happy. 960 01:17:51,117 --> 01:17:53,058 - He's glad for me. - Oh, good. 961 01:17:53,154 --> 01:17:55,018 You see 'em much, your people, your folks? 962 01:17:55,727 --> 01:17:57,437 Yeah, but sometimes it's hard though. 963 01:17:57,587 --> 01:17:58,730 Yeah, well- 964 01:18:00,337 --> 01:18:01,858 Yeah, it's hard. 965 01:18:04,387 --> 01:18:05,904 You give them hope. 966 01:18:07,739 --> 01:18:10,992 - Yeah, I guess. - You do. You give 'em hope. 967 01:18:11,752 --> 01:18:14,287 Because you have transcended, Lesra. 968 01:18:14,897 --> 01:18:20,126 It is very important to transcend the places that hold us. 969 01:18:20,147 --> 01:18:23,755 You know that? You've learned to read. You've learned to write. 970 01:18:24,067 --> 01:18:26,987 Writing is- it's magic. 971 01:18:28,487 --> 01:18:30,261 You feel that sometimes? 972 01:18:32,617 --> 01:18:35,058 - Yeah, I guess I do. - Mm-hmm. 973 01:18:35,482 --> 01:18:37,519 When I started writing... 974 01:18:39,547 --> 01:18:42,899 I discovered that I was doing more than just telling a story. 975 01:18:43,797 --> 01:18:45,652 See, writing is a weapon... 976 01:18:46,361 --> 01:18:49,322 and it's more powerful than a fist can ever be. 977 01:18:49,822 --> 01:18:54,308 Every time I sat down to write, I could rise above the walls of this prison. 978 01:18:54,327 --> 01:18:58,957 I could look out over the walls all across the state of New Jersey. 979 01:18:59,977 --> 01:19:03,358 And I could see Nelson Mandela in his cell writing his book. 980 01:19:03,377 --> 01:19:06,857 I could see Huey. I could see Dostoyevsky. 981 01:19:06,876 --> 01:19:10,657 I could see Victor Hugo, Emile Zola, and- and they would say to me... 982 01:19:10,787 --> 01:19:12,937 "Rubin, what you doin' in there?" 983 01:19:13,010 --> 01:19:16,010 And I say, "Hey, I know all you guys." 984 01:19:18,377 --> 01:19:20,436 It's magic, Lesra. 985 01:19:21,497 --> 01:19:23,814 Mmm, they sure don't teach it that way up in Canada. 986 01:19:24,757 --> 01:19:26,308 Maybe you could tell me some books to read. 987 01:19:26,326 --> 01:19:27,652 I can do that. 988 01:19:28,217 --> 01:19:31,470 But these people in Canada or anywhere else, they can only teach you so much. 989 01:19:31,489 --> 01:19:34,659 It's up to you. It's your search. You gotta find out what's true for you... 990 01:19:34,677 --> 01:19:36,994 what is true for Lesra Martin. 991 01:19:39,687 --> 01:19:42,082 I ain't never met nobody like you before. 992 01:19:47,067 --> 01:19:49,423 You think I killed those people, son? 993 01:19:51,827 --> 01:19:54,345 - No, I know you didn't. - How you know? 994 01:19:54,787 --> 01:19:56,180 I just know. 995 01:20:02,337 --> 01:20:04,730 I'm so glad I met you, Lesra. 996 01:20:08,547 --> 01:20:09,943 Me too. 997 01:20:11,927 --> 01:20:13,405 Visit's up. 998 01:20:15,217 --> 01:20:16,742 Everybody out. 999 01:20:18,597 --> 01:20:20,162 Come on, folks. Let's go. 1000 01:20:21,614 --> 01:20:23,874 You like a quick picture of you and your son, Mr Carter? 1001 01:20:23,893 --> 01:20:26,835 - Come on, folks. Let's go. - It's up to my son. 1002 01:20:26,897 --> 01:20:28,545 Yeah, all right. All right. 1003 01:20:31,987 --> 01:20:34,593 That's enough pictures. Come on. Let's go. 1004 01:21:17,997 --> 01:21:19,554 Dear Lesra... 1005 01:21:20,157 --> 01:21:25,226 whoever is responsible for your present condition obviously cares a great deal. 1006 01:21:25,727 --> 01:21:29,898 For me, it was a miracle to see such light in a human being again. 1007 01:21:30,773 --> 01:21:35,361 When you came, it was like the day had started off without the sun. 1008 01:21:35,547 --> 01:21:37,697 It's dim and it's cool. 1009 01:21:38,097 --> 01:21:40,408 Then suddenly, and without any warning... 1010 01:21:40,767 --> 01:21:44,704 the sunshine breaks through the dimness and lights up everything. 1011 01:22:02,491 --> 01:22:04,515 You been all around the world, huh, Mobutu? 1012 01:22:04,700 --> 01:22:06,225 Been everywhere. 1013 01:22:06,738 --> 01:22:08,728 Shut your motherfuckin' mouth up! 1014 01:22:15,837 --> 01:22:18,797 Born in the Congo. Mm-hmm. 1015 01:22:18,927 --> 01:22:21,073 In the blackness of black. 1016 01:22:23,057 --> 01:22:26,337 My mother was a Pygmy. She stood four foot, one inch. 1017 01:22:26,477 --> 01:22:29,373 - Hmm. - My father was a big Watusi. 1018 01:22:30,397 --> 01:22:32,376 He was seven foot, ten. 1019 01:22:32,638 --> 01:22:36,088 He'd have to pick her up like a little child to kiss her. 1020 01:22:37,697 --> 01:22:39,008 Hmm, cute. 1021 01:22:45,497 --> 01:22:47,558 What do you think of white folks? 1022 01:22:50,377 --> 01:22:54,607 They're just a little bit too much of this stuff, you know? 1023 01:22:55,467 --> 01:22:58,152 But, uh, then again... 1024 01:22:58,507 --> 01:23:02,698 I once rode the rails with a hobo by the name of, um... 1025 01:23:03,517 --> 01:23:04,867 Alabama. 1026 01:23:05,937 --> 01:23:08,537 Now, he was white folks... 1027 01:23:09,057 --> 01:23:11,498 and he was a good man. 1028 01:23:12,397 --> 01:23:16,670 Mm-hmm. He saved my life three times. 1029 01:23:17,160 --> 01:23:18,380 Three times? 1030 01:23:18,556 --> 01:23:20,937 Mm-hmm. Three times. 1031 01:23:23,157 --> 01:23:25,220 Three times life, huh? 1032 01:23:26,827 --> 01:23:28,557 Everything I lost... 1033 01:23:29,497 --> 01:23:31,101 that really matters... 1034 01:23:31,810 --> 01:23:33,907 I lost at the hand of white folks. 1035 01:23:34,047 --> 01:23:35,814 I know what you mean... 1036 01:23:37,180 --> 01:23:39,735 but they ain't all bad. 1037 01:23:48,414 --> 01:23:50,307 But they sure can't dance. 1038 01:23:53,687 --> 01:23:55,250 Oh, shit. 1039 01:23:56,817 --> 01:23:58,447 Mm-hmm. 1040 01:24:01,697 --> 01:24:04,009 Hey, y'all, th-this is where we go in. 1041 01:24:04,237 --> 01:24:05,427 Come on. 1042 01:24:07,157 --> 01:24:08,471 Come on! 1043 01:24:09,667 --> 01:24:12,309 - Don't look now, but we're being watched. - Stop it. 1044 01:24:15,167 --> 01:24:17,314 Somehow I don't think you can smoke in there. 1045 01:24:20,087 --> 01:24:21,484 Right over there. 1046 01:24:24,007 --> 01:24:26,948 Hey, Rube, man, we made it. How you doin', man? 1047 01:24:27,177 --> 01:24:28,491 All right. 1048 01:24:29,517 --> 01:24:32,370 - Sam. - Hey, Rubin. Good to meet you. 1049 01:24:32,897 --> 01:24:35,248 Yeah. Good, good, good. 1050 01:24:35,267 --> 01:24:37,625 - Professor. - Yeah. 1051 01:24:38,107 --> 01:24:40,317 - This is Terry. - Terry. 1052 01:24:40,453 --> 01:24:42,496 - Nice to meet you. - It's my pleasure, Terry. 1053 01:24:42,514 --> 01:24:43,631 Heard a lot about you. 1054 01:24:43,697 --> 01:24:45,550 - Lisa. - Lisa. 1055 01:24:46,447 --> 01:24:47,459 So... 1056 01:24:48,970 --> 01:24:51,055 you don't look like I thought you would look. 1057 01:24:52,327 --> 01:24:54,309 Lesra said you were so tough. 1058 01:24:55,587 --> 01:24:56,894 Is that good? 1059 01:24:57,029 --> 01:24:59,981 Don't know. Don't know. 1060 01:25:01,127 --> 01:25:02,474 Don't know. 1061 01:25:03,113 --> 01:25:04,360 Come on. 1062 01:25:05,050 --> 01:25:06,404 Sit down. 1063 01:25:17,081 --> 01:25:19,750 Everybody together! I can't stand it. 1064 01:25:20,857 --> 01:25:23,254 So, uh, Rubin, how's the appeal goin'? 1065 01:25:23,487 --> 01:25:27,508 Uh, we hear it's with the New Jersey Supreme Court. Have they set a date? 1066 01:25:30,303 --> 01:25:32,263 Why don't we talk about Lesra? 1067 01:25:32,457 --> 01:25:35,683 I'm sure that Lesra wants to know what's happening with your case too. 1068 01:25:36,207 --> 01:25:39,657 My case is doing what it's doing. 1069 01:25:39,956 --> 01:25:43,149 I have to focus on the fact that I have to do the time. 1070 01:25:44,627 --> 01:25:46,068 Well, how do you do that? 1071 01:25:48,887 --> 01:25:54,227 How do I do that? I do that by not allowing myself to want or to need... 1072 01:25:55,597 --> 01:25:56,704 anything. 1073 01:25:57,277 --> 01:26:00,917 I'm free in here because there's nothing I want out here. 1074 01:26:02,317 --> 01:26:06,557 Not free to want? Not free to risk human contact? 1075 01:26:06,922 --> 01:26:09,007 This place doesn't allow you to be human. 1076 01:26:09,026 --> 01:26:11,487 The only contact you get in here is gettin' stabbed in the 1077 01:26:11,505 --> 01:26:13,637 back or gang-raped in the shower. 1078 01:26:14,388 --> 01:26:16,965 That's what they've reduced you to. I mean, you've obviously elevated it 1079 01:26:16,983 --> 01:26:18,475 to something else with Lesra. 1080 01:26:19,337 --> 01:26:22,062 Yeah, because of you, Rube, I wanna be a lawyer when I grow up... 1081 01:26:22,436 --> 01:26:24,148 and prove you innocent. 1082 01:26:24,416 --> 01:26:26,275 Except we don't have to wait till I'm a lawyer, Rube, 1083 01:26:26,294 --> 01:26:27,596 because these guys want to help, man. 1084 01:26:27,757 --> 01:26:29,227 We all believe in your innocence. 1085 01:26:29,245 --> 01:26:32,322 I've been innocent for 16 years. 1086 01:26:32,341 --> 01:26:33,907 That's how long I've been in here. 1087 01:26:34,224 --> 01:26:37,411 Innocence is a highly overrated commodity. 1088 01:26:37,807 --> 01:26:40,455 None of us can judge what you've been through, but you might wanna consider- 1089 01:26:40,517 --> 01:26:42,916 You're damn right none of you can judge what I've been through... 1090 01:26:42,935 --> 01:26:44,876 because none of you have been through it. 1091 01:26:45,237 --> 01:26:46,744 What do you know about doing time? 1092 01:26:46,933 --> 01:26:48,193 Tell me about it. 1093 01:26:48,212 --> 01:26:49,756 What do you know about what it is to be me? 1094 01:26:49,775 --> 01:26:52,009 What do- What do you know about being in this place? 1095 01:26:52,157 --> 01:26:55,079 - Hey, this is too much, you guys. - Yeah, you're right. This is too much. 1096 01:26:55,957 --> 01:26:58,223 Um, y'all, look, let's just go, all right? 1097 01:27:05,797 --> 01:27:08,150 - Rubin. Rubin. Rubin. - Right there. 1098 01:27:08,257 --> 01:27:10,694 Hey, listen, we left a package for you in the mail room. 1099 01:27:36,907 --> 01:27:38,096 Yes. 1100 01:27:53,597 --> 01:27:56,114 Visitors left this for you in the mail room. 1101 01:27:57,347 --> 01:27:59,575 We had to open it 'cause of security. 1102 01:28:01,267 --> 01:28:02,912 Nice to have friends. 1103 01:28:20,747 --> 01:28:23,349 "Special gift for The Hurricane." 1104 01:28:30,587 --> 01:28:32,400 Don't trust 'em, Rubin. 1105 01:28:33,837 --> 01:28:35,611 Don't trust 'em. 1106 01:28:43,647 --> 01:28:48,107 You trust a bunch of little white-ass do-gooders more than you trust me... 1107 01:28:48,227 --> 01:28:50,418 more than you trust us. 1108 01:28:52,317 --> 01:28:54,697 Yeah. No more hate. 1109 01:28:56,697 --> 01:28:58,509 Try that on, huh? 1110 01:28:58,709 --> 01:29:01,762 Don't trust 'em, Rubin. They'll turn on ya. Don't trust 'em, no. 1111 01:29:01,907 --> 01:29:05,140 - Think me and you. Me and you. - See how that fits. 1112 01:29:08,547 --> 01:29:11,105 - It's time. - For what? 1113 01:29:13,377 --> 01:29:15,234 It's time for you to go. 1114 01:29:15,547 --> 01:29:18,988 Don't you turn your back on me, nigger. 1115 01:29:20,030 --> 01:29:21,365 Rubin! 1116 01:29:22,427 --> 01:29:23,701 Rubin! 1117 01:29:24,387 --> 01:29:26,370 Ladies and gentlemen... 1118 01:29:27,307 --> 01:29:29,123 in this corner- 1119 01:29:31,187 --> 01:29:34,947 In this corner, from Paterson, New Jersey... 1120 01:29:35,067 --> 01:29:37,857 wearing the white trunks with black stripes... 1121 01:29:37,987 --> 01:29:40,300 Rubin "Hurricane" Carter! 1122 01:29:54,087 --> 01:29:56,167 - Okay, Sam. Are you joining us? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1123 01:29:56,186 --> 01:29:58,414 - Lesra, get up back. - Dear Rubin... 1124 01:29:58,433 --> 01:30:01,353 - I can't believe the warmth and beauty of your letter. - Ready? 1125 01:30:01,427 --> 01:30:04,616 We get a rich, deep feeling of experiencing your presence. 1126 01:30:04,637 --> 01:30:08,120 You've- You've made what we've been saying the truth- 1127 01:30:08,713 --> 01:30:11,248 that you can't keep people back who refuse to be kept back. 1128 01:30:11,267 --> 01:30:12,749 Here we go. Here we go. 1129 01:30:13,399 --> 01:30:16,461 We work out of our home, so we're always here if you'd like to call. 1130 01:30:17,157 --> 01:30:19,256 We'd really like to hear your voice. 1131 01:30:19,867 --> 01:30:22,634 You are very persuasive... 1132 01:30:22,987 --> 01:30:26,388 and I thank you for all the things you send me... 1133 01:30:26,805 --> 01:30:29,725 but you people are a bad influence on me. 1134 01:30:30,077 --> 01:30:33,019 I'm startin' to like all this stuff a little too much. 1135 01:30:33,957 --> 01:30:35,939 You're lettin' me get loose. 1136 01:30:45,894 --> 01:30:46,992 Hello? 1137 01:30:49,097 --> 01:30:50,694 Yeah, I'll accept the charges. 1138 01:30:50,960 --> 01:30:52,872 Hey, Rube, what's happening, man? 1139 01:30:53,567 --> 01:30:55,375 Lesra, boy, you, uh- 1140 01:30:55,917 --> 01:30:58,336 Well, you sound more like a man every day. 1141 01:30:58,897 --> 01:31:00,338 Get outta here. 1142 01:31:02,367 --> 01:31:03,758 Where is everybody? 1143 01:31:04,717 --> 01:31:05,908 Oh, you know Canadians, man. 1144 01:31:05,927 --> 01:31:07,378 They're not happy unless they're outside, you know, 1145 01:31:07,396 --> 01:31:09,870 rakin' leaves or tappin' a tree for maple syrup. 1146 01:31:09,889 --> 01:31:12,100 I don't know how they do it, man. It's cold out there, shoot. 1147 01:31:12,147 --> 01:31:14,018 Hey, what's up, Rube? Something happen? 1148 01:31:14,707 --> 01:31:16,354 Yeah, I, um... 1149 01:31:17,757 --> 01:31:19,524 heard from the courts, Lesra. 1150 01:31:20,507 --> 01:31:21,776 Been denied. 1151 01:31:22,485 --> 01:31:23,653 I lost the appeal. 1152 01:31:25,637 --> 01:31:28,649 Oh, no, man. Well-Well, look, look, look, hold on, Rube. 1153 01:31:28,668 --> 01:31:30,993 - Let me tell everyone, okay? - I gotta go, little brother. 1154 01:31:31,097 --> 01:31:33,887 No, well, wait, Rube! W- Wait! Wait. Wait. But, Rube! 1155 01:31:34,372 --> 01:31:35,540 Rubin! 1156 01:31:36,740 --> 01:31:38,084 What's going on? 1157 01:31:46,117 --> 01:31:47,760 Lost the appeal. 1158 01:31:50,577 --> 01:31:51,972 Oh, no. 1159 01:32:07,887 --> 01:32:11,337 Dear Lesra, Terry, Sam... 1160 01:32:12,847 --> 01:32:14,119 Lisa... 1161 01:32:15,607 --> 01:32:19,375 this is, in many ways, the saddest letter I've ever had to write. 1162 01:32:20,937 --> 01:32:24,847 I appreciate your many efforts and kindnesses... 1163 01:32:24,987 --> 01:32:26,674 but I am a prisoner. 1164 01:32:27,407 --> 01:32:29,959 My number is 45472, 1165 01:32:30,552 --> 01:32:32,199 and my job, the key to my survival- 1166 01:32:32,219 --> 01:32:36,976 "My number is 45472, and my job, the key to my survival... 1167 01:32:36,997 --> 01:32:39,061 lies in my ability to do the time. 1168 01:32:40,771 --> 01:32:45,117 This place is not one in which humanity can survive. Only steel can. 1169 01:32:47,906 --> 01:32:49,904 This will be my last letter to you. 1170 01:32:50,967 --> 01:32:52,532 Please do not write. 1171 01:32:52,918 --> 01:32:54,577 Please do not visit. 1172 01:32:55,847 --> 01:32:59,122 Please find it in your hearts to not weaken me with your love. 1173 01:33:01,357 --> 01:33:03,347 Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter." 1174 01:33:08,777 --> 01:33:10,092 Open up, Ken. 1175 01:33:10,950 --> 01:33:12,135 Okay. 1176 01:33:15,077 --> 01:33:16,223 Thanks. 1177 01:33:28,087 --> 01:33:29,319 Rubin. 1178 01:33:32,267 --> 01:33:34,574 I got a letter here for you from Canada. 1179 01:33:37,187 --> 01:33:40,288 I'm just gonna slide it in here for you. 1180 01:33:44,607 --> 01:33:46,753 You do what you want with it. 1181 01:33:58,867 --> 01:34:00,350 "Dear Rube... 1182 01:34:01,247 --> 01:34:03,228 I know you asked us not to write... 1183 01:34:03,837 --> 01:34:05,438 so I'm not writing... 1184 01:34:06,127 --> 01:34:07,899 just sending you two things. 1185 01:34:08,967 --> 01:34:13,029 One's a picture of me and my new girlfriend, Pauline. 1186 01:34:14,677 --> 01:34:15,782 The other... 1187 01:34:16,887 --> 01:34:19,660 is something that rightfully belongs to you- 1188 01:34:20,477 --> 01:34:22,538 my high school diploma. 1189 01:34:23,477 --> 01:34:25,458 Your friend and brother forever, 1190 01:34:26,250 --> 01:34:27,918 Lesra Martin." 1191 01:35:04,567 --> 01:35:05,831 Hello. 1192 01:35:09,437 --> 01:35:12,421 Yes, I accept- I-I accept the charges. 1193 01:35:17,524 --> 01:35:18,752 Rubin? 1194 01:35:19,356 --> 01:35:20,762 Hey. 1195 01:35:23,931 --> 01:35:26,351 R- Rubin, I-I-I can't hear you. 1196 01:35:34,797 --> 01:35:35,944 Rube- 1197 01:35:38,097 --> 01:35:39,198 Hello? 1198 01:35:50,317 --> 01:35:52,461 He said he can't do the time. 1199 01:36:28,147 --> 01:36:30,457 Uh, collect call to anyone... 1200 01:36:30,477 --> 01:36:32,792 from Mr Rubin Carter. 1201 01:36:33,897 --> 01:36:35,545 - Get it. Get it. - Take one. 1202 01:36:37,487 --> 01:36:39,299 - Yes. - Rubin? 1203 01:36:39,662 --> 01:36:41,072 - Lesra? - No, it's Terry. 1204 01:36:41,090 --> 01:36:43,553 I'm here with Lisa and Sam, and Lesra's here. 1205 01:36:43,707 --> 01:36:45,472 Hey. How y'all doin'? 1206 01:36:45,867 --> 01:36:47,307 Look out the window. 1207 01:36:49,060 --> 01:36:50,226 What? 1208 01:36:51,021 --> 01:36:52,511 You see that light? 1209 01:36:53,229 --> 01:36:54,939 The one that's blinking? 1210 01:36:55,167 --> 01:36:56,566 You see it? 1211 01:36:57,587 --> 01:36:58,860 Yeah. 1212 01:36:59,847 --> 01:37:01,446 Can you see Lesra? 1213 01:37:08,786 --> 01:37:12,387 Yeah, I see you. What are y'all doin' here? 1214 01:37:14,107 --> 01:37:17,137 - Can he see us? - Yeah, he can see you. 1215 01:37:18,357 --> 01:37:20,882 - Rube! - We're here. 1216 01:37:21,487 --> 01:37:23,009 We've moved down here. 1217 01:37:25,707 --> 01:37:26,712 For what? 1218 01:37:26,730 --> 01:37:29,377 We're in this thing full-time until you walk out of there. 1219 01:37:29,497 --> 01:37:31,726 Hold on. Lisa wants to say something. 1220 01:37:32,087 --> 01:37:33,519 Hurricane! 1221 01:37:34,507 --> 01:37:35,897 Hey, Rube. 1222 01:37:37,231 --> 01:37:40,151 Looks like you got some foot soldiers now, huh? 1223 01:37:42,637 --> 01:37:45,948 We're all in this together, and we're not leaving till we all leave. 1224 01:37:52,107 --> 01:37:53,789 You're beautiful. 1225 01:37:54,687 --> 01:37:56,375 We're gonna take you home. 1226 01:37:57,897 --> 01:37:59,503 Okay. 1227 01:38:02,947 --> 01:38:04,300 Okay. 1228 01:38:22,234 --> 01:38:25,510 Rubin has, uh, asked us to give you copies of everything that we have... 1229 01:38:25,529 --> 01:38:27,318 and to answer any questions. 1230 01:38:27,557 --> 01:38:30,743 And since we've represented him for over ten years... 1231 01:38:31,253 --> 01:38:33,120 there's an awful lot of material. 1232 01:38:33,165 --> 01:38:36,582 I mean, we have rooms full of files. 1233 01:38:36,789 --> 01:38:39,128 Absolutely. And, uh, please understand... 1234 01:38:39,147 --> 01:38:42,254 that we are not here to second-guess you or- 1235 01:38:42,567 --> 01:38:46,425 You know, we- we've come down here to help in any way we can. 1236 01:38:46,787 --> 01:38:48,927 Anything, you know. Anything at all. 1237 01:38:55,127 --> 01:38:56,894 Well, that's very kind of you. 1238 01:38:57,140 --> 01:39:00,230 And I congratulate you on your dedication to Rubin's case. 1239 01:39:01,377 --> 01:39:03,692 Uh, maybe I should add that in those ten years... 1240 01:39:03,711 --> 01:39:06,194 we've been working on this, we've donated our services. 1241 01:39:06,257 --> 01:39:08,797 We've never asked for a dime. We never expect one. Do we? 1242 01:39:08,927 --> 01:39:11,074 - No. - I wanted to be sure. 1243 01:39:11,937 --> 01:39:15,467 And also in that time, uh, there have been a lot of people... 1244 01:39:15,607 --> 01:39:16,747 great people... 1245 01:39:18,147 --> 01:39:19,708 all well-intentioned. 1246 01:39:20,567 --> 01:39:22,502 - Famous. - Infamous. 1247 01:39:22,521 --> 01:39:23,628 Or not. 1248 01:39:23,846 --> 01:39:26,741 Boxers, singers, writers, actors... 1249 01:39:26,910 --> 01:39:28,675 journalists, et cetera. 1250 01:39:29,157 --> 01:39:32,053 A lot of brave people who gave their time... 1251 01:39:32,367 --> 01:39:35,307 and, to some degree, risked their reputations. 1252 01:39:36,537 --> 01:39:37,559 People like you. 1253 01:39:39,837 --> 01:39:41,229 And, uh... 1254 01:39:42,297 --> 01:39:47,257 people come and go, and, frankly, nobody lasts. 1255 01:39:48,807 --> 01:39:50,864 Nobody stays the course. 1256 01:39:51,637 --> 01:39:53,315 Nobody goes the distance, 1257 01:39:54,576 --> 01:39:56,411 because it's too tough. 1258 01:39:56,727 --> 01:39:58,163 It's too slow... 1259 01:39:59,317 --> 01:40:01,040 and it's heartbreaking. 1260 01:40:02,607 --> 01:40:04,127 It's too heartbreaking. 1261 01:40:04,219 --> 01:40:06,657 Well, with all due respect, Mr Friedman... 1262 01:40:07,136 --> 01:40:10,633 what you have to understand is that we're here. 1263 01:40:10,947 --> 01:40:12,209 We've moved here, 1264 01:40:12,969 --> 01:40:15,947 and we have every intention of staying here until Rubin is free. 1265 01:40:16,030 --> 01:40:17,098 Right on. 1266 01:40:20,207 --> 01:40:23,896 So we finally got in to see your lawyers, Beldock and Friedman, the other day. 1267 01:40:24,377 --> 01:40:25,565 How'd they take it? 1268 01:40:25,982 --> 01:40:28,287 Oh, I'd say we handled ourselves pretty well. 1269 01:40:28,427 --> 01:40:31,571 Yeah, well, we hauled about what, ten tons of documents, into the apartment. 1270 01:40:32,517 --> 01:40:33,865 - In broad daylight? - Yeah. 1271 01:40:33,957 --> 01:40:35,825 - Oh, yeah. - Wait a minute. Listen to me. 1272 01:40:36,057 --> 01:40:37,577 This is not Canada. 1273 01:40:39,057 --> 01:40:41,330 Now, I can protect you in here... 1274 01:40:42,227 --> 01:40:44,709 but there's not much I can do for you on the outside. 1275 01:40:45,817 --> 01:40:47,985 The only way I'm ever leaving this place is if 1276 01:40:48,004 --> 01:40:50,715 a lot of very important people are exposed. 1277 01:40:50,907 --> 01:40:52,842 They're not gonna just let that happen. 1278 01:40:54,157 --> 01:40:55,219 You understand? 1279 01:40:55,595 --> 01:40:56,888 We'll be careful. 1280 01:40:57,747 --> 01:40:58,797 Okay. 1281 01:40:58,889 --> 01:41:01,308 Well, why don't you walk us through what happened that night? 1282 01:41:01,642 --> 01:41:05,563 Now, three cops have testified the shooting occurred at 2:45. 1283 01:41:06,359 --> 01:41:07,933 So, uh, 1284 01:41:07,951 --> 01:41:10,693 - what time did you leave the Nite Spot? - 2:30. 1285 01:41:17,500 --> 01:41:19,493 Anybody call a cab? 1286 01:41:21,546 --> 01:41:22,978 Time for me to get outta here. 1287 01:41:22,997 --> 01:41:25,750 - How much do I owe you, Big Ed? - Your money's no good here, champ. 1288 01:41:26,046 --> 01:41:30,421 - Anybody call a cab? - I did, unless Rubin's taking me home. 1289 01:41:32,100 --> 01:41:34,383 If I take you, it's gonna be more than home. 1290 01:41:34,892 --> 01:41:36,427 Get on outta here, girl. 1291 01:41:37,307 --> 01:41:38,637 Shit. 1292 01:41:39,407 --> 01:41:41,849 What were you doin' out so late on a Thursday night? 1293 01:41:42,837 --> 01:41:44,509 What does it matter what night it was? 1294 01:41:44,527 --> 01:41:46,145 Wasn't Thursday night ladies' night? 1295 01:41:46,220 --> 01:41:47,938 Didn't it matter to your wife? 1296 01:41:50,627 --> 01:41:54,069 I'm in the penitentiary for murder, not attempted adultery. 1297 01:41:59,807 --> 01:42:01,451 So there was a cab there. 1298 01:42:02,536 --> 01:42:04,187 He must have seen you leave, right? 1299 01:42:04,474 --> 01:42:05,539 No. 1300 01:42:06,164 --> 01:42:07,816 No, he left before I did. 1301 01:42:07,977 --> 01:42:10,210 - Hey. - Poor daddy goin' home, baby. 1302 01:42:13,737 --> 01:42:16,091 - Bye, Rubin. - Take it easy. 1303 01:42:16,370 --> 01:42:19,135 - Hey, champ. - Huh? Hey! 1304 01:42:21,247 --> 01:42:23,181 Whoa! He's gone! 1305 01:42:27,417 --> 01:42:30,480 I wish to God John Artis had met a girl that night. 1306 01:42:30,507 --> 01:42:33,525 I wish that, uh, he hadn't been there at all. 1307 01:42:35,297 --> 01:42:37,946 He didn't deserve this. He didn't deserve any of it. 1308 01:42:41,847 --> 01:42:44,035 Artis, let's go. You're done. 1309 01:42:44,557 --> 01:42:47,247 He got the same sentence I got, and all he had to do... 1310 01:42:47,267 --> 01:42:50,166 was lie and say I killed those people and... 1311 01:42:50,987 --> 01:42:54,504 they would have let him out and his nightmare would have been over. 1312 01:42:56,197 --> 01:42:59,426 Most men couldn't have stood up to that kind of torture... 1313 01:43:01,407 --> 01:43:03,138 but John Artis did. 1314 01:43:03,430 --> 01:43:05,307 The man is my hero. 1315 01:43:12,144 --> 01:43:15,692 So the police said it was 2:45 or a little after... 1316 01:43:15,887 --> 01:43:17,986 when all hell broke loose at the Lafayette Bar. 1317 01:43:18,097 --> 01:43:19,445 That's what they said. 1318 01:43:20,767 --> 01:43:24,492 Apparently, the two gunmen entered the bar and immediately started shooting. 1319 01:43:34,447 --> 01:43:38,756 According to William Marins, the two guys barged in and just opened fire. 1320 01:43:39,447 --> 01:43:41,342 Oliver goes down first. 1321 01:43:42,497 --> 01:43:43,928 Nauyaks. 1322 01:43:44,897 --> 01:43:47,140 Then Marins was the only one who got a look at 'em. 1323 01:43:48,207 --> 01:43:50,447 Then they shoot Hazel Tanis and leave. 1324 01:43:57,547 --> 01:43:58,943 What's Bello doing? 1325 01:43:59,285 --> 01:44:02,196 Bello was a lookout for a burglary up the street. 1326 01:44:07,017 --> 01:44:08,494 And who else saw anything? 1327 01:44:08,586 --> 01:44:09,953 Patty Valentine. 1328 01:44:10,147 --> 01:44:12,373 She said she saw the getaway car. 1329 01:44:17,907 --> 01:44:21,549 And there was a man who lived across the street by the name of Avery Cockersham. 1330 01:44:21,576 --> 01:44:23,801 Cockersham? That name was in the police report. 1331 01:44:23,860 --> 01:44:24,885 That's right. 1332 01:44:25,134 --> 01:44:26,780 So how come he didn't testify? 1333 01:44:26,954 --> 01:44:29,390 The judge threw the police report out. 1334 01:44:30,497 --> 01:44:32,893 Cockersham left town. Nobody could find him. 1335 01:45:32,897 --> 01:45:34,329 It was two colored guys. 1336 01:45:34,672 --> 01:45:36,874 They just walked in, they started shootin'. 1337 01:45:37,277 --> 01:45:38,583 Call the cops. 1338 01:45:53,287 --> 01:45:56,851 Now, according to the police, the murders were racially motivated. 1339 01:45:57,877 --> 01:45:59,470 See, the bar didn't serve blacks, 1340 01:45:59,489 --> 01:46:01,587 so naturally this crazy nigger, Rubin Carter... 1341 01:46:01,606 --> 01:46:04,609 had to take out his vengeance on the entire white race. 1342 01:46:09,097 --> 01:46:12,384 Uh, this is, uh, Exhibit 11-F. This is 1966. 1343 01:46:12,402 --> 01:46:13,807 Wait a minute. What are you talking about? Where are- Where are you? 1344 01:46:13,826 --> 01:46:15,914 - Trial transcripts, 1966. - Oh. Stick to the blue cards. 1345 01:46:15,934 --> 01:46:18,345 - Valentine- Valentine first said... - I know the blue cards. 1346 01:46:18,370 --> 01:46:20,792 The car's taillights were similar to the getaway car. 1347 01:46:20,858 --> 01:46:22,660 - "Similar." - Right. Then in '76, 1348 01:46:22,683 --> 01:46:25,172 Exhibit 89-C, she says, quote... 1349 01:46:25,191 --> 01:46:28,632 "The Carter car was unquestionably the same car. There was no doubt." 1350 01:46:28,827 --> 01:46:30,468 - Closed quote. - Exactly. 1351 01:46:30,907 --> 01:46:32,512 Kinda makes you wonder, doesn't it? 1352 01:46:32,957 --> 01:46:36,391 Second trial, ten years later, suddenly she changes her story. 1353 01:46:36,999 --> 01:46:40,228 She drew a picture, like a bow tie. 1354 01:46:40,507 --> 01:46:42,480 Yeah. Yeah, I've got it here. 1355 01:46:44,757 --> 01:46:47,684 "Taillights lit up all across the back like a butterfly, 1356 01:46:47,823 --> 01:46:49,389 as the killer's car drove away." 1357 01:46:49,408 --> 01:46:50,947 "Like a butterfly." 1358 01:46:51,387 --> 01:46:54,389 So the first thing we have to do is find out exactly what Rubin's car looked like. 1359 01:46:54,408 --> 01:46:57,536 - We need to find a '66 Dodge Polara. - Mm-hmm. 1360 01:46:57,767 --> 01:47:00,479 There's the bow-tie lights, like Patty Valentine described. 1361 01:47:00,498 --> 01:47:02,032 I'm not so sure about that. 1362 01:47:02,050 --> 01:47:03,251 - You ready? - Yeah! 1363 01:47:03,277 --> 01:47:04,335 Yeah. 1364 01:47:11,117 --> 01:47:12,176 See that? 1365 01:47:12,969 --> 01:47:14,554 They don't light up all the way. 1366 01:47:14,700 --> 01:47:17,570 Oh, no, that's a Dodge Monaco. You don't want one of those. 1367 01:47:17,700 --> 01:47:20,624 They don't have the power. Look, I'll make you a good deal on this one. 1368 01:47:21,957 --> 01:47:23,020 Shit. 1369 01:47:23,205 --> 01:47:24,629 Monaco? 1370 01:48:06,047 --> 01:48:07,180 Mr Carter? 1371 01:48:07,856 --> 01:48:08,940 Yeah. 1372 01:48:10,087 --> 01:48:11,652 I was told to get you. 1373 01:48:12,847 --> 01:48:13,904 Get me? 1374 01:48:14,321 --> 01:48:15,822 By whom? 1375 01:48:16,267 --> 01:48:18,116 The warden wants to see you. 1376 01:48:22,833 --> 01:48:23,914 For what? 1377 01:48:24,456 --> 01:48:25,750 I don't know. 1378 01:48:39,957 --> 01:48:41,431 Open up, Al. 1379 01:49:02,202 --> 01:49:03,537 Mr Carter. 1380 01:49:09,317 --> 01:49:11,920 I have a difficult job running this place... 1381 01:49:13,907 --> 01:49:15,256 but I do it. 1382 01:49:15,855 --> 01:49:17,523 I do it really well. 1383 01:49:20,367 --> 01:49:23,056 You called me down here at 3:00 in the morning to tell me that? 1384 01:49:24,207 --> 01:49:25,433 I hear things. 1385 01:49:25,526 --> 01:49:27,269 I hear everything. 1386 01:49:29,907 --> 01:49:31,481 What have you heard, Warden? 1387 01:49:32,507 --> 01:49:34,359 I hear something's goin' down. 1388 01:49:35,967 --> 01:49:37,445 I don't want a mess, 1389 01:49:38,529 --> 01:49:40,781 something that I can't clean up. 1390 01:49:41,227 --> 01:49:43,951 This doesn't have anything to do with my case, does it? 1391 01:49:44,194 --> 01:49:46,997 Shit happens every day... 1392 01:49:47,357 --> 01:49:49,374 and I wanna warn you, that's all. 1393 01:49:51,277 --> 01:49:52,951 Somebody tries to take you down, 1394 01:49:53,830 --> 01:49:55,713 something gets started... 1395 01:49:56,157 --> 01:49:57,673 I can't stop it. 1396 01:49:58,227 --> 01:49:59,467 You understand me? 1397 01:49:59,967 --> 01:50:01,594 What do you suggest I do? 1398 01:50:02,884 --> 01:50:04,222 Stay alive. 1399 01:50:06,077 --> 01:50:08,309 And that goes for your friends too. 1400 01:50:09,866 --> 01:50:11,312 Guard. 1401 01:50:39,077 --> 01:50:40,549 Who is it? 1402 01:50:40,777 --> 01:50:43,260 We're looking for an Avery Cockersham. 1403 01:50:48,172 --> 01:50:49,725 Do the Cockershams live here? 1404 01:50:51,543 --> 01:50:53,687 I'm Mrs Cockersham. What do you want? 1405 01:50:54,967 --> 01:50:56,440 You're black. 1406 01:50:58,546 --> 01:50:59,901 You're white. 1407 01:51:01,347 --> 01:51:02,854 Baked fresh this morning. 1408 01:51:03,005 --> 01:51:04,865 Now, you take the white one. 1409 01:51:07,937 --> 01:51:11,038 Yeah, there were plenty colored folks in the neighborhood... 1410 01:51:11,607 --> 01:51:13,832 and in the bar too. 1411 01:51:15,067 --> 01:51:16,668 Avery and me were regulars. 1412 01:51:16,802 --> 01:51:18,407 They served blacks in the bar? 1413 01:51:18,527 --> 01:51:20,214 We had a running tab. 1414 01:51:20,800 --> 01:51:22,799 So much for the racial motive, eh? 1415 01:51:24,327 --> 01:51:27,429 My Avery got a good look at those men... 1416 01:51:27,930 --> 01:51:29,973 and it wasn't Rubin Carter. 1417 01:51:30,377 --> 01:51:31,642 He told the police. 1418 01:51:31,975 --> 01:51:33,657 He told 'em and he told 'em. 1419 01:51:33,797 --> 01:51:36,396 He even signed a statement for that detective. 1420 01:51:36,627 --> 01:51:37,814 You know the one. 1421 01:51:38,523 --> 01:51:39,747 Heavy set. 1422 01:51:40,004 --> 01:51:42,444 He looked like a bulldog with glasses. 1423 01:51:43,057 --> 01:51:44,154 Della Pesca. 1424 01:51:44,288 --> 01:51:45,697 That's the one. 1425 01:51:46,267 --> 01:51:49,910 Could we, uh, talk with your husband? 1426 01:51:52,857 --> 01:51:54,414 Avery's dead. 1427 01:51:56,817 --> 01:51:59,127 He died just before the trial. 1428 01:52:03,770 --> 01:52:05,091 I'm sorry. 1429 01:52:28,898 --> 01:52:30,742 Here's stuff I wanna check out. 1430 01:52:32,347 --> 01:52:33,661 What is this? 1431 01:52:34,977 --> 01:52:36,706 Who the fuck you think you are? 1432 01:52:40,067 --> 01:52:42,086 Does this look like Toronto to you? 1433 01:52:42,545 --> 01:52:44,005 Excuse me? 1434 01:52:44,367 --> 01:52:46,731 You know, you people, you got some nerve comin' down here 1435 01:52:46,750 --> 01:52:48,718 pokin' your nose where it don't belong. 1436 01:52:50,997 --> 01:52:53,264 Let me ask you something, Mr Canada. 1437 01:52:55,667 --> 01:52:58,311 What the fuck do you know about this place, huh? Huh? 1438 01:52:58,722 --> 01:52:59,812 You know anything? 1439 01:53:00,146 --> 01:53:01,564 You don't know shit. 1440 01:53:01,757 --> 01:53:03,191 Let me enlighten you... 1441 01:53:03,935 --> 01:53:07,152 because you don't know what you're doin'. 1442 01:53:08,767 --> 01:53:10,522 You are making enemies... 1443 01:53:11,490 --> 01:53:13,575 that you don't know exist. 1444 01:53:14,130 --> 01:53:15,160 Huh? 1445 01:53:15,369 --> 01:53:16,829 We know about you. 1446 01:53:18,187 --> 01:53:20,625 You don't know shit about me. You understand? 1447 01:53:21,487 --> 01:53:24,538 You don't know shit about this place, and let me tell ya something else. 1448 01:53:24,607 --> 01:53:26,589 You're not welcome here, okay? 1449 01:53:26,729 --> 01:53:28,841 You're not fuckin' welcome here. 1450 01:53:29,657 --> 01:53:32,136 You got that? Go back to where you belong. 1451 01:53:58,107 --> 01:54:00,622 Lesra's gonna have to get on with school, so... 1452 01:54:00,897 --> 01:54:03,500 we might want to send him back for a while. 1453 01:54:04,487 --> 01:54:05,627 I understand. 1454 01:54:06,086 --> 01:54:07,347 - It's probably the best. - Yeah. 1455 01:54:07,407 --> 01:54:09,798 - Yeah. - What about you? 1456 01:54:10,907 --> 01:54:14,553 Oh, it's- it's gonna take a little longer than we thought. 1457 01:54:19,120 --> 01:54:20,642 Y'all all right? 1458 01:54:23,492 --> 01:54:24,771 Yeah. 1459 01:54:36,557 --> 01:54:38,687 I have asked myself, Lisa... 1460 01:54:38,807 --> 01:54:42,080 if I could do for anyone... 1461 01:54:43,027 --> 01:54:47,278 what you and Sam and Terry and Lesra have done for me, and the answer is no. 1462 01:54:47,297 --> 01:54:49,755 - So if you feel like you need to go home... - Shh. We're not- 1463 01:54:49,867 --> 01:54:50,913 for any reason... 1464 01:54:53,257 --> 01:54:54,282 I'll understand. You- 1465 01:54:54,301 --> 01:54:56,678 No, you gotta understand. We're not- 1466 01:54:57,407 --> 01:54:58,972 We're not leaving without you. 1467 01:55:02,649 --> 01:55:03,977 All right? 1468 01:55:05,627 --> 01:55:07,522 And we're gonna find something. 1469 01:55:14,507 --> 01:55:17,847 Um, well, I found something- 1470 01:55:18,715 --> 01:55:21,177 a fellow by the name of Barbieri. 1471 01:55:23,082 --> 01:55:24,790 He's a private investigator. 1472 01:55:25,457 --> 01:55:27,376 Prosecution hired him in the second trial. 1473 01:55:27,395 --> 01:55:29,410 Didn't he resign from the case or something? 1474 01:55:29,428 --> 01:55:33,214 He quit... and he turned in his murder book and crime-scene photos... 1475 01:55:33,447 --> 01:55:35,550 list of evidence, but no notes. 1476 01:55:36,867 --> 01:55:39,679 - Anyone talk to him? - Myron tracked him down. 1477 01:55:39,787 --> 01:55:42,056 - What'd he say? - Nothin'. He was scared. 1478 01:55:42,240 --> 01:55:43,308 Of whom? 1479 01:55:44,058 --> 01:55:46,102 Of the people he was workin' with. 1480 01:55:56,177 --> 01:55:58,448 - Mrs Barbieri? - Miss. 1481 01:55:58,767 --> 01:56:00,908 Hello. Uh, is Mr Barbieri in? 1482 01:56:01,451 --> 01:56:03,007 There isn't any mister. 1483 01:56:05,079 --> 01:56:07,415 Uh, Dominick, Dominick Barbieri? 1484 01:56:08,437 --> 01:56:11,544 That was my father. He passed away years ago. 1485 01:56:24,537 --> 01:56:27,101 Wow. Maybe you oughta have a yard sale. 1486 01:56:28,127 --> 01:56:30,521 That case always bothered my father. 1487 01:56:30,757 --> 01:56:32,398 He never talked about it. 1488 01:56:33,024 --> 01:56:34,997 He said he had to live in this town, you know? 1489 01:56:35,137 --> 01:56:37,707 Yeah. Do you have any idea where his notes might be? 1490 01:56:37,790 --> 01:56:41,323 Well, if he kept them at all, they'd be in one of those boxes. 1491 01:56:44,807 --> 01:56:48,581 Guy was a pack rat. He must have saved every case he ever worked on. 1492 01:56:52,197 --> 01:56:54,503 - Wait, wait, wait, wait. - What? 1493 01:56:56,567 --> 01:56:59,091 - I found it. Look at this. Look. - What? 1494 01:56:59,407 --> 01:57:01,927 - He kept a damn diary. - Oh, look. 1495 01:57:02,287 --> 01:57:05,639 Who would have thought he'd put it in a diary? But he did. Look at this. 1496 01:57:06,077 --> 01:57:07,107 There. 1497 01:57:08,247 --> 01:57:11,367 A call was placed to an emergency operator named Jean Wahl... 1498 01:57:11,507 --> 01:57:14,617 at 2:28 AM to report the shooting. 1499 01:57:14,757 --> 01:57:16,942 - At 2:28? - That's right. 1500 01:57:17,467 --> 01:57:19,778 She then calls the cops to tell them. 1501 01:57:20,557 --> 01:57:23,115 They say they already know about it. In fact... 1502 01:57:23,137 --> 01:57:27,387 they've got a cruiser on its way over to the Lafayette at that moment. 1503 01:57:27,517 --> 01:57:29,496 - Oh, my God. - Yes. 1504 01:57:32,227 --> 01:57:34,209 According to Barbieri... 1505 01:57:34,947 --> 01:57:38,903 "time on the record of customer contact was changed... 1506 01:57:38,922 --> 01:57:41,883 from 2:28 to 2:45." 1507 01:57:41,907 --> 01:57:44,678 - Yes. - Son of a bitch. 1508 01:57:45,077 --> 01:57:47,931 Which, if true, puts John Artis and myself... 1509 01:57:47,956 --> 01:57:51,666 at the Nite Spot at the time of the killings. 1510 01:57:51,685 --> 01:57:54,547 Well, if we can prove she got the call at 2:28. 1511 01:57:54,602 --> 01:57:56,106 We'll prove it. 1512 01:57:59,757 --> 01:58:01,153 We can prove it. 1513 01:58:14,082 --> 01:58:15,583 Mrs Wahl? 1514 01:58:16,336 --> 01:58:17,419 Hi. 1515 01:58:17,544 --> 01:58:20,964 My name is Sam Chaiton. We spoke on the phone about the Rubin Carter case. 1516 01:58:21,354 --> 01:58:24,162 - I told you, I don't want to talk to you. - Mrs Wahl, please. 1517 01:58:24,181 --> 01:58:26,575 Um, you told an investigator named Barbieri 1518 01:58:26,594 --> 01:58:31,337 that an emergency call you took the night of the Lafayette Bar murders was at 2:28. 1519 01:58:31,457 --> 01:58:34,327 I don't know what I told him. It was a long time ago. 1520 01:58:34,457 --> 01:58:37,605 Uh, but there's a card that says 2:45 on it... 1521 01:58:38,540 --> 01:58:41,067 and, uh, you didn't sign the card. 1522 01:58:41,717 --> 01:58:44,529 According to Barbieri, it was signed by a Miss Lenore Harkinson. 1523 01:58:45,557 --> 01:58:47,156 She was my supervisor. 1524 01:58:47,610 --> 01:58:49,423 Why would your supervisor sign the card? 1525 01:58:49,442 --> 01:58:51,494 And wouldn't you normally do that yourself? 1526 01:58:51,617 --> 01:58:55,581 Look, if there's a card and that's what it says, then that's what it says. 1527 01:58:55,857 --> 01:58:57,155 I don't remember anything else. 1528 01:58:57,173 --> 01:59:00,378 And if someone tries to make me testify, that's just what I'll say. 1529 01:59:00,657 --> 01:59:03,089 Uh, look, Mrs Wahl- 1530 01:59:04,077 --> 01:59:05,258 Thank you. 1531 01:59:08,537 --> 01:59:11,889 So this is a copy of the phone company's record of customer contact. 1532 01:59:12,577 --> 01:59:15,184 It's all there, just like Barbieri said. 1533 01:59:16,167 --> 01:59:17,687 2:45. 1534 01:59:20,547 --> 01:59:22,441 Look at the signature on the card. 1535 01:59:22,637 --> 01:59:25,611 It's signed by Lenora Harkinson, Jean Wahl's supervisor. 1536 01:59:26,887 --> 01:59:28,573 Does that mean anything to you? 1537 01:59:31,897 --> 01:59:34,245 It means she didn't have to write up a phoney ticket. 1538 01:59:35,067 --> 01:59:36,163 What? 1539 01:59:37,857 --> 01:59:39,333 He signed it himself. 1540 01:59:40,487 --> 01:59:41,669 Who? 1541 01:59:43,686 --> 01:59:48,008 His handwriting is on every report that... 1542 01:59:48,237 --> 01:59:51,137 put me in prison since I was 11 years old. 1543 01:59:54,667 --> 01:59:56,183 It's Della Pesca. 1544 02:00:00,127 --> 02:00:01,714 It's his handwriting. 1545 02:00:15,607 --> 02:00:18,122 - Oh, shit! What's happening? - What the hell is that? 1546 02:00:18,227 --> 02:00:19,707 - Don't know. - What is that? 1547 02:00:25,697 --> 02:00:27,381 - Oh, shit! - Hold on! 1548 02:00:33,917 --> 02:00:35,681 - You all right? - Yeah. 1549 02:00:37,457 --> 02:00:38,466 Les, you okay? 1550 02:00:38,484 --> 02:00:40,077 - I'm all right. - Are ya? 1551 02:00:42,337 --> 02:00:44,231 Are you all right? Yeah? 1552 02:00:44,250 --> 02:00:45,464 I think so. Damn. 1553 02:00:47,275 --> 02:00:48,309 - Yeah? - Shit. 1554 02:00:48,327 --> 02:00:49,667 Hey, you okay? 1555 02:00:49,807 --> 02:00:52,417 - What the fuck was that? - Need help? 1556 02:00:52,557 --> 02:00:54,032 We're okay. Thanks. 1557 02:00:54,702 --> 02:00:56,826 - Are they all right? - Goddam. 1558 02:00:57,017 --> 02:01:00,017 The car just went right over the center divider- 1559 02:01:13,468 --> 02:01:15,545 Rubin, the law states we have to take our new evidence back 1560 02:01:15,563 --> 02:01:17,058 to the original trial judge... 1561 02:01:17,077 --> 02:01:18,547 and then if he turns us down, 1562 02:01:18,565 --> 02:01:21,434 - we go to the state appeals court- - No. No, no, no, no! 1563 02:01:21,457 --> 02:01:25,355 Listen to me. These people aren't gonna just let that happen. 1564 02:01:26,467 --> 02:01:28,627 They've made their careers on my case. 1565 02:01:28,817 --> 02:01:32,259 - What are you talking about, Rubin? - I'm talking about lawyers, prosecutors, judges... 1566 02:01:32,278 --> 02:01:34,906 who have moved up the ladder on my black back. 1567 02:01:37,711 --> 02:01:40,241 We don't even know what enemies we have out there in this state. 1568 02:01:40,260 --> 02:01:43,874 We gotta take it out of New Jersey, and we gotta take it to the federal court. 1569 02:01:44,027 --> 02:01:46,626 Rubin, if you go into federal court... 1570 02:01:46,737 --> 02:01:49,587 with new evidence that hasn't been heard in the state court... 1571 02:01:49,763 --> 02:01:52,215 the judge is gonna throw it out, okay? 1572 02:01:52,367 --> 02:01:54,884 - That is the law. - Then we transcend the law. 1573 02:01:54,907 --> 02:01:57,345 We, we, we get back to humanity. 1574 02:01:58,167 --> 02:02:00,858 You said it yourself. You said if we take the new evidence... 1575 02:02:00,877 --> 02:02:04,487 before the federal judge, he's gotta look at it before he throws it out, right? 1576 02:02:04,627 --> 02:02:05,928 - Right. - I believe that 1577 02:02:05,946 --> 02:02:08,327 once he looks at it, he will have seen the truth. 1578 02:02:08,467 --> 02:02:11,859 Having seen the truth, he can't turn his back on me. 1579 02:02:12,847 --> 02:02:16,280 And what if you're wrong and he does turn away? Then what? 1580 02:02:16,739 --> 02:02:19,767 Then you throw out all this evidence that everyone's fought so hard to get. 1581 02:02:19,883 --> 02:02:21,118 And you know what, Rubin? 1582 02:02:21,410 --> 02:02:24,330 You will never be able to mention it in a court of law again. 1583 02:02:24,349 --> 02:02:27,875 It is finished. It's erased. It's as if it never happened. 1584 02:02:28,897 --> 02:02:30,452 This evidence is the key 1585 02:02:30,470 --> 02:02:33,255 to getting you out of here, and you'll be throwing it away, Rubin... 1586 02:02:33,327 --> 02:02:36,687 - when in a few more years- - I don't have a few more years, Myron! 1587 02:02:38,367 --> 02:02:39,503 Leon, help me out. 1588 02:02:40,338 --> 02:02:43,503 I can't. I agree with Rubin. It's time to move on. 1589 02:02:43,522 --> 02:02:44,722 Move on? What do you mean, move on? 1590 02:02:44,740 --> 02:02:46,560 - Move on where? - The state's biased, Myron. 1591 02:02:46,579 --> 02:02:48,752 We're never gonna get anything there. We have to go federal. 1592 02:02:48,771 --> 02:02:50,191 You can't take the risk of going 1593 02:02:50,209 --> 02:02:52,333 - federal with this. - Listen to me. Listen to me! 1594 02:02:59,137 --> 02:03:01,367 I'm 50 years old. 1595 02:03:05,267 --> 02:03:08,916 I've been locked up here for 30 years. 1596 02:03:12,657 --> 02:03:15,589 I've put a lot of good people's lives at risk. 1597 02:03:17,197 --> 02:03:19,176 Now, either I get outta here- 1598 02:03:25,337 --> 02:03:27,059 Get me outta here. 1599 02:03:52,317 --> 02:03:53,335 Ready? 1600 02:03:56,987 --> 02:03:58,548 Good luck, Rubin. 1601 02:04:06,877 --> 02:04:08,183 This is for you. 1602 02:04:08,433 --> 02:04:10,226 You stay strong. 1603 02:04:17,217 --> 02:04:18,527 Good luck. 1604 02:04:18,852 --> 02:04:21,877 My man. Peace, baby. Be cool now. 1605 02:04:21,963 --> 02:04:23,782 Good luck, Mr Carter. 1606 02:04:47,134 --> 02:04:50,517 - Rubin. - Rubin Carter, prisoner 45472. 1607 02:04:52,047 --> 02:04:54,521 - See you around. - Okay, Jimmy. 1608 02:05:02,967 --> 02:05:05,490 Your Honor, we appear before you... 1609 02:05:05,727 --> 02:05:09,202 in our 19th year before the courts. 1610 02:05:10,517 --> 02:05:14,123 Rubin Carter has never enjoyed a full, fair... 1611 02:05:14,397 --> 02:05:16,751 and unforced disclosure of the facts... 1612 02:05:17,067 --> 02:05:19,253 to which he is constitutionally entitled. 1613 02:05:22,367 --> 02:05:23,966 For 19 years... 1614 02:05:24,748 --> 02:05:26,719 the truth has been hidden... 1615 02:05:27,827 --> 02:05:29,597 not only from Rubin Carter's eyes... 1616 02:05:30,537 --> 02:05:33,768 - but from the eyes of justice itself and- - Uh, Your Honor. 1617 02:05:33,997 --> 02:05:36,157 The prosecution objects forcefully here. 1618 02:05:36,284 --> 02:05:38,617 Counsel is attempting to present new evidence... 1619 02:05:38,636 --> 02:05:41,107 and circumvent the State Court of New Jersey. 1620 02:05:41,317 --> 02:05:43,777 Your Honor must, according to the law... 1621 02:05:44,257 --> 02:05:47,573 drop this entire petition where it belongs- into the garbage. 1622 02:05:47,592 --> 02:05:50,868 Your Honor, we implore you to at least hear us... 1623 02:05:51,097 --> 02:05:52,536 before making your ruling. 1624 02:05:53,357 --> 02:05:55,714 Mr Beldock, I hope you understand 1625 02:05:55,733 --> 02:05:58,667 the implications of your action. 1626 02:05:59,038 --> 02:06:03,131 That is a very slippery slope... 1627 02:06:03,237 --> 02:06:05,007 you're trying to climb. 1628 02:06:07,117 --> 02:06:08,293 We do, Your Honor. 1629 02:06:09,220 --> 02:06:10,817 Proceed. 1630 02:06:15,877 --> 02:06:19,169 In 1976, the State of New Jersey's... 1631 02:06:19,188 --> 02:06:22,137 chief investigator of this case, Dominick Barbieri... 1632 02:06:22,156 --> 02:06:25,402 resigned because he discovered the truth. 1633 02:06:25,847 --> 02:06:27,917 He discovered that this case was built... 1634 02:06:27,943 --> 02:06:30,866 on a foundation of forgeries and lies. 1635 02:06:32,397 --> 02:06:34,828 Those lies show the guilt not of Rubin Carter... 1636 02:06:35,607 --> 02:06:39,500 but of a corrupt police force and the prosecutor's office. 1637 02:06:44,421 --> 02:06:47,883 And now this wall of lies has been destroyed... 1638 02:06:48,907 --> 02:06:51,803 so that this court may finally see the truth... 1639 02:06:52,201 --> 02:06:54,348 and, pray God, not turn its eyes away. 1640 02:06:55,327 --> 02:06:58,769 This court is not unmoved by your... 1641 02:06:59,877 --> 02:07:01,605 eloquence and passion... 1642 02:07:02,677 --> 02:07:05,317 but the prosecution is correct. 1643 02:07:05,717 --> 02:07:08,445 This petition contains new evidence... 1644 02:07:08,507 --> 02:07:13,158 that has not been presented before the State Court of New Jersey... 1645 02:07:13,948 --> 02:07:17,708 and there is no legal argument that you could make... 1646 02:07:17,727 --> 02:07:20,540 which would allow me to consider it. 1647 02:07:20,737 --> 02:07:24,044 Therefore, you have two choices before you: 1648 02:07:24,567 --> 02:07:27,631 I can send this case back to the state court... 1649 02:07:27,907 --> 02:07:30,425 and you can present the evidence... 1650 02:07:30,747 --> 02:07:34,027 or, if you insist... 1651 02:07:34,281 --> 02:07:36,806 on, uh, proceeding... 1652 02:07:37,917 --> 02:07:41,519 this evidence will be lost to you forever. 1653 02:07:46,137 --> 02:07:50,111 You understand the choice before you, Mr Beldock? 1654 02:07:57,147 --> 02:07:58,319 Your Honor... 1655 02:07:58,967 --> 02:08:01,748 may I request a moment to confer with my client? 1656 02:08:02,147 --> 02:08:05,627 That's the smartest thing you've said all morning, Counselor. 1657 02:08:13,447 --> 02:08:17,619 Rubin, listen to me. This judge is telling us as clearly as he possibly can 1658 02:08:17,638 --> 02:08:19,265 that he's going to rule against you. 1659 02:08:20,167 --> 02:08:23,268 - This is our last stand, Myron. - Rubin, I am begging you- 1660 02:08:23,287 --> 02:08:24,562 Let's proceed. 1661 02:08:35,597 --> 02:08:36,908 Your Honor... 1662 02:08:37,575 --> 02:08:40,870 my client wishes to continue with this proceeding. 1663 02:08:42,291 --> 02:08:44,258 Uh, do you do so formally... 1664 02:08:44,277 --> 02:08:47,627 and, uh, are you aware of the, uh... 1665 02:08:48,157 --> 02:08:50,838 significance of such an action? 1666 02:08:51,697 --> 02:08:53,007 We do so formally. 1667 02:09:00,374 --> 02:09:01,551 Proceed. 1668 02:09:02,224 --> 02:09:03,657 But, Your Honor- 1669 02:09:03,797 --> 02:09:06,168 - Yes? - Uh, the state is not prepared 1670 02:09:06,187 --> 02:09:08,314 to proceed to argue the merits of this case. 1671 02:09:08,587 --> 02:09:09,773 Why not? 1672 02:09:12,499 --> 02:09:14,181 Well, we, we assumed... 1673 02:09:14,507 --> 02:09:17,656 that the court would not hear this petition based on new evidence. 1674 02:09:20,267 --> 02:09:22,227 You assumed wrong. 1675 02:09:26,213 --> 02:09:27,807 Proceed. 1676 02:09:30,027 --> 02:09:32,838 So, Your Honor, this case was poisoned from the start. 1677 02:09:33,808 --> 02:09:35,424 No evidence. 1678 02:09:35,787 --> 02:09:38,802 No witnesses, except admitted liars. 1679 02:09:39,747 --> 02:09:42,014 Only a racially charged atmosphere... 1680 02:09:42,787 --> 02:09:46,268 which was fanned by the police and the prosecutors... 1681 02:09:46,630 --> 02:09:47,977 who knew the truth... 1682 02:09:48,729 --> 02:09:50,189 and distorted it... 1683 02:09:50,377 --> 02:09:51,690 and subverted it... 1684 02:09:52,316 --> 02:09:53,943 and destroyed it... 1685 02:09:54,568 --> 02:09:56,361 to convict an innocent man. 1686 02:09:59,307 --> 02:10:01,889 What more can the State of New Jersey do, Your Honor... 1687 02:10:01,908 --> 02:10:04,119 than give a man not one... 1688 02:10:04,477 --> 02:10:06,413 but two jury trials? 1689 02:10:07,027 --> 02:10:08,874 And nothing has changed since then. 1690 02:10:09,603 --> 02:10:14,254 Mr Carter is, and always has been, a menace to society. 1691 02:10:14,487 --> 02:10:16,715 He's been in and out of jail his whole life. 1692 02:10:16,907 --> 02:10:19,551 A criminal. He's a violent man. 1693 02:10:19,747 --> 02:10:21,887 His whole life has been violence. 1694 02:10:22,287 --> 02:10:25,788 And it is our duty, Your Honor, to continue to protect... 1695 02:10:25,807 --> 02:10:27,767 the general public from such a man. 1696 02:10:29,047 --> 02:10:30,061 Thank you. 1697 02:10:38,467 --> 02:10:43,033 I've heard your statements. Uh, I'll take them under consideration. 1698 02:10:44,097 --> 02:10:48,227 Now, is there anything else that counsel wishes to add... 1699 02:10:48,246 --> 02:10:51,291 before I make my final ruling? 1700 02:10:51,835 --> 02:10:53,658 - What are you doing? - I want to say something. 1701 02:10:53,677 --> 02:10:55,336 - What are you gonna say? - I want to- 1702 02:10:55,396 --> 02:10:56,982 I need to say something. 1703 02:10:57,197 --> 02:11:00,239 Uh, Your Honor, m-my- my client, Mr Carter 1704 02:11:00,258 --> 02:11:02,135 wishes to address the court. 1705 02:11:04,327 --> 02:11:05,889 Request granted. 1706 02:11:06,917 --> 02:11:08,266 Thank you, Your Honor. 1707 02:11:11,587 --> 02:11:13,438 I was a, um... 1708 02:11:14,587 --> 02:11:15,898 prizefighter. 1709 02:11:18,547 --> 02:11:20,403 My job was to... 1710 02:11:21,307 --> 02:11:23,197 take all the hatred... 1711 02:11:23,517 --> 02:11:25,616 and skill that I could muster... 1712 02:11:26,347 --> 02:11:30,580 and send a man to his destruction, and I did that. 1713 02:11:33,277 --> 02:11:36,419 But Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is no murderer. 1714 02:11:39,199 --> 02:11:42,341 Twenty years I've spent locked up in a cage... 1715 02:11:42,697 --> 02:11:44,947 considered a danger to society. 1716 02:11:46,827 --> 02:11:49,454 Not treated like a human being. 1717 02:11:49,473 --> 02:11:51,308 Not treated like a person. 1718 02:11:52,167 --> 02:11:55,087 Counted 15 times a day. 1719 02:11:57,427 --> 02:12:00,132 I serve my time in a house of justice 1720 02:12:00,151 --> 02:12:02,417 and yet, there's no justice for me. 1721 02:12:04,017 --> 02:12:05,322 So... 1722 02:12:06,018 --> 02:12:08,909 I ask you to consider the evidence. 1723 02:12:10,035 --> 02:12:14,039 Don't turn away from the truth. Don't turn away from your conscience. 1724 02:12:15,107 --> 02:12:18,669 Please, don't ignore the law. No, em-embrace that... 1725 02:12:18,947 --> 02:12:22,965 higher principle for which the law was meant to serve. 1726 02:12:27,407 --> 02:12:30,097 Justice. That's all I ask for, Your Honor. 1727 02:12:32,497 --> 02:12:33,559 Justice. 1728 02:12:39,127 --> 02:12:41,191 This court is in recess. 1729 02:12:56,277 --> 02:12:58,792 Oh, thank you. 1730 02:13:10,957 --> 02:13:12,556 It's good. 1731 02:13:20,193 --> 02:13:22,566 Come a long way, huh, little brother? 1732 02:13:25,807 --> 02:13:27,154 Yeah. 1733 02:13:28,517 --> 02:13:30,904 Look, Rubin, I just want you to know if this doesn't work... 1734 02:13:31,017 --> 02:13:32,784 I'm bustin' you outta here. 1735 02:13:34,057 --> 02:13:36,217 - You are? - Yeah. That's right. 1736 02:13:36,357 --> 02:13:37,747 I'm bustin' you outta here. 1737 02:13:41,410 --> 02:13:43,795 What was the first book you ever bought? 1738 02:13:45,697 --> 02:13:47,007 Yours. 1739 02:13:49,327 --> 02:13:51,052 You think that was an accident? 1740 02:13:52,997 --> 02:13:55,056 - No. - No, me neither. 1741 02:13:56,590 --> 02:13:59,561 Lesra, short for Lazarus. 1742 02:14:00,167 --> 02:14:03,064 "He who has risen from the dead." 1743 02:14:05,066 --> 02:14:06,380 Rubin. 1744 02:14:07,677 --> 02:14:10,738 Genesis, chapter 29, verse 32. 1745 02:14:11,157 --> 02:14:13,449 "Behold a son." 1746 02:14:15,977 --> 02:14:18,288 You put those two together, Lesra, and you have... 1747 02:14:18,357 --> 02:14:21,207 "Behold a son who is risen... 1748 02:14:21,777 --> 02:14:23,501 from the dead." 1749 02:14:26,867 --> 02:14:28,798 That's no accident. 1750 02:14:33,247 --> 02:14:35,596 Hate put me in prison. 1751 02:14:38,287 --> 02:14:40,518 Love's gonna bust me out. 1752 02:14:45,523 --> 02:14:47,191 Just in case love doesn't, 1753 02:14:47,701 --> 02:14:49,694 I'm gonna bust you outta here. 1754 02:15:01,187 --> 02:15:02,331 Yeah. 1755 02:15:03,487 --> 02:15:05,418 You already have, Lesra. 1756 02:15:07,457 --> 02:15:08,921 All rise. 1757 02:15:12,407 --> 02:15:15,344 This Federal District Court of New Jersey is now in session. 1758 02:15:15,907 --> 02:15:17,638 Judge Sarokin presiding. 1759 02:15:21,957 --> 02:15:23,269 Be seated. 1760 02:15:42,937 --> 02:15:46,875 This court does not arrive at its conclusion lightly. 1761 02:15:48,460 --> 02:15:51,397 On one hand, Rubin Carter has submitted a document... 1762 02:15:51,527 --> 02:15:53,632 alleging racial prejudice... 1763 02:15:54,440 --> 02:15:58,004 coercion of testimony and withholding of evidence. 1764 02:15:58,030 --> 02:15:59,388 On the other hand... 1765 02:16:00,247 --> 02:16:03,367 Mr Carter was tried twice... 1766 02:16:03,497 --> 02:16:05,561 by two different juries... 1767 02:16:05,683 --> 02:16:08,568 and those convictions were subsequently upheld... 1768 02:16:08,587 --> 02:16:11,400 by the New Jersey State Supreme Court. 1769 02:16:12,547 --> 02:16:15,237 He's gonna rule against us. Rubin's gonna lose. 1770 02:16:16,887 --> 02:16:19,324 However, the extensive record... 1771 02:16:19,347 --> 02:16:21,618 clearly demonstrates to this court... 1772 02:16:21,977 --> 02:16:24,079 that Rubin Carter's conviction... 1773 02:16:24,483 --> 02:16:27,582 was predicated upon an appeal... 1774 02:16:27,817 --> 02:16:29,418 to racism... 1775 02:16:30,237 --> 02:16:31,962 rather than reason... 1776 02:16:32,527 --> 02:16:34,256 and concealment... 1777 02:16:34,907 --> 02:16:37,259 rather than disclosure. 1778 02:16:38,368 --> 02:16:40,762 To permit convictions to stand... 1779 02:16:40,957 --> 02:16:43,348 which have as their sole foundation... 1780 02:16:43,396 --> 02:16:46,100 appeals to racial prejudice... 1781 02:16:47,377 --> 02:16:48,979 is to commit... 1782 02:16:49,877 --> 02:16:51,273 a violation... 1783 02:16:52,357 --> 02:16:53,984 of the Constitution... 1784 02:16:54,427 --> 02:16:57,946 as heinous as the crimes for which the defendants... 1785 02:16:58,690 --> 02:16:59,865 were tried... 1786 02:17:00,807 --> 02:17:02,075 and convicted. 1787 02:17:02,937 --> 02:17:05,120 I hereby order Rubin Carter... 1788 02:17:05,517 --> 02:17:08,217 - released from prison... - Yes! 1789 02:17:08,357 --> 02:17:11,209 Henceforth, from this day forward. 1790 02:17:11,487 --> 02:17:12,752 Yes! Yes. 1791 02:17:15,947 --> 02:17:17,882 This court is adjourned. 1792 02:17:18,907 --> 02:17:22,345 Hey, Rube, you made- you made it, man! You're free! Can you stand it? 1793 02:17:26,787 --> 02:17:27,934 You did it, Rube. 1794 02:17:28,443 --> 02:17:29,561 You did it, man. 1795 02:17:31,167 --> 02:17:33,022 - Yeah, huh? - Yeah! 1796 02:17:53,237 --> 02:17:56,087 Rubin Carter has just been freed. 1797 02:18:09,917 --> 02:18:12,269 All right! You're free, Rubin! 1798 02:18:39,027 --> 02:18:41,507 Mr Carter. Hey, Mr Carter. 1799 02:18:41,713 --> 02:18:42,924 Mr Carter. 1800 02:18:59,652 --> 02:19:00,984 Mr Carter? 1801 02:19:01,619 --> 02:19:02,847 Mr Carter? 1802 02:19:05,807 --> 02:19:09,967 Mr Carter? Now that you're out, a- are you still gonna be The Hurricane? 1803 02:19:12,567 --> 02:19:14,623 Oh, I'll always be The Hurricane. 1804 02:19:16,237 --> 02:19:19,628 And The Hurricane is beautiful. 1805 02:19:22,617 --> 02:19:25,509 This is unbelievable! 1806 02:19:25,617 --> 02:19:27,857 The crowd is going wild. 1807 02:19:27,997 --> 02:19:32,599 Everybody wanted this victory, and Hurricane has delivered.