Artis died on Nov. 7 of a gastric aneurysm at his home in Hampton, Virginia, said Fred Hogan, his longtime friend who worked to help overturn the convictions of Artis and Carter.
Dylan became aware of Carter’s plight after reading the boxer’s autobiography. He met Carter and co-wrote the song “Hurricane,” which he performed on his Rolling Thunder Revue tour in 1975. After years of appeals and advocacy, including by the boxing great Muhammad Ali and other celebrities, the men were released.
Hogan said Artis was the “forgotten man” in the case, which drew widespread attention to Carter, but little to Artis. He said Carter often called Artis his “hero” because Artis turned down an offer for a reduced prison term if he would implicate Carter in the killings. Artis and Carter remained close friends until“John was promised a lot of things that would have helped himself avoid prison if he would say that Rubin was involved in the crime. John said, ‘I’m not lying.
So many racist men and women lived in USA for hundreds of years.
the prosecution had been “predicated upon an appeal to racism rather than reason, and concealment rather than disclosure”
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We live in a society where the power system wants to take the sin of the fathers and tattoo them onto the children and the unborn, into perpetuity. I say it's time to remove ourselves from the burden of collective imprisonment. Free your minds. Enlighten ourselves.
Rest in peace.