page_title: June 1966
section_title: June 17, 1966 (Friday)
hierarchical_section_title: June 1966 / June 17, 1966 (Friday)
caption_attribution_description: English: Boxer Rubin Carter in 1958. Upon his release from prison in September 1961, Carter turned professional boxer. Español: Antes de ser acusado de homicidio, Carter fue un boxeador profesional.
context_page_description: The following events occurred in June 1966:
context_section_description: Three people were murdered in the Lafayette Grill at 128 East Eighteenth Street in Paterson, New Jersey. Hours later, police stopped professional boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, who was with a friend in a white car and, five months later, Carter would be charged, tried and convicted of the triple homicide. For the next 19 years, Carter would remain imprisoned for a crime that he hadn't committed, until the case would be reopened and the conviction reversed in 1985. Carter, at one time the leading contender for the world middleweight boxing championship, would die in 2014.
  Died: Betty Baxter Anderson, 58, American author of the Career Story for Older Girls series of juvenile fiction books
caption: Hurricane Carter
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