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By Larry Elder, Apr. 22, 2014
Yesterday, I posted an article I wrote nearly 15 years ago about the fraud of a movie, "Hurricane." The man on whose life the movie was based died this past Sunday.
Today I am showing a video prepared by Hollywood publicist Ed Lozzi:
As you see, the video intervews New Jersey columnist Cal Deal, who followed the case from the beginning. Deal believes Carter murdered three people -- and pulled off a massive con job on Hollywood.
Deal put together a web site called graphicwitness.com/carter. He says he did so to allow the truth to be known.
He says that “Hurricane,” while an excellent movie, is almost complete fiction from start to finish. Among other things, Carter was never “exonerated.” Physical evidence linked the middleweight fighter to the crime. He was not the choirboy the film made him out to be.
In some cases, the movie flat-out lied. In particular, one character bemoans that Carter was convicted by "all-white juries" when two blacks sat on the second jury.
Carter, in fact, murdered three people and lied convincingly enough to bamboozle Hollywood into giving him a standing ovation at the Golden Globe Awards.
Don't believe me, a self-loathing “right-winger”? Okay, try dismissing this piece by Michael Moynihan in the decidedly non-"right wing" Daily Beast:
‘Hurricane’ Carter Was Wrongly Convicted, But He Wasn’t Innocent
Any questions?
Yesterday, I posted an article I wrote nearly 15 years ago about the fraud of a movie, "Hurricane." The man on whose life the movie was based died this past Sunday.
Today I am showing a video prepared by Hollywood publicist Ed Lozzi:
Deal put together a web site called graphicwitness.com/carter. He says he did so to allow the truth to be known.
He says that “Hurricane,” while an excellent movie, is almost complete fiction from start to finish. Among other things, Carter was never “exonerated.” Physical evidence linked the middleweight fighter to the crime. He was not the choirboy the film made him out to be.
In some cases, the movie flat-out lied. In particular, one character bemoans that Carter was convicted by "all-white juries" when two blacks sat on the second jury.
Carter, in fact, murdered three people and lied convincingly enough to bamboozle Hollywood into giving him a standing ovation at the Golden Globe Awards.
Don't believe me, a self-loathing “right-winger”? Okay, try dismissing this piece by Michael Moynihan in the decidedly non-"right wing" Daily Beast:
‘Hurricane’ Carter Was Wrongly Convicted, But He Wasn’t Innocent
Any questions?
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