Inside were three men and one woman, all white, all of them regulars at the tavern, long known as a quiet watering hole on the border between Paterson's working-class Lithuanian and black neighborhoods. closing time at the Lafayette Grill drew near. It was early in the morning of June 17, 1966, a Friday. 32-caliber pistol - probably a 7-shot, German-made revolver, say police ballistics experts. One carried a 12-gauge shotgun, the other a. At the same time, such a journey also reveals evidence that has never been challenged – and, yet, still contributes to the mystery. To study the original case records now is to walk a path littered with perplexing questions and strands of facts that have been woven into myth. Did Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and John Artis brutally kill two people and fatally wound a third there on a June night in 1966? Or were Carter, then 29 and a well-known boxer, and Artis, 19 and a former high school track star who spent his days driving a delivery truck, unjustly imprisoned for most of two decades?īACK IN THE NEWS: Revisiting the Hurricane Carter murder case: Son resurrects his detective father's memoir It has been 34 years now, and people still can't agree on what happened at Paterson's Lafayette Grill. The killers fired their first shots without saying a single word.įrom there, the mystery that involves a man called "Hurricane" spread like cracks on a broken mirror. Editor's note: This column was first published in The Record's edition of Sunday, March 26, 2000.Īlmost everyone agrees on this singular fact that tells so much, yet so little:
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