A Rubin Quote

[H2O Man]

30. While I was

looking through a number of my files -- where these letters were -- I found a stack of photos of my children hanging out with Rubin. The four of them grew up thinking of him as one of their uncles. My youngest has a tattoo of a hand-written message he gave her when she was wee-little: "Darcy -- Dare to Dream! -- Rubin "Hurricane" Carter."

The first boxing match I watched with my father and brothers was Rubin knocking out welterweight championEmile Griffith in the first round. I still have an old boxing scrapbook from that era. It never made sense to me when he was convicted of the violent crime. By age 13, I was featured in an article in a boxing magazine, and I figured that I was destined to become a professional. So I wrote to Rubin, saying I had looked into his case, thought he was innocent, and was going to get him released. I added that I would offer him the opportunity to train and manage me. (!) And he wrote back, beginning a 40+ year friendship.

Little did I know that, in time, as I was doing quite well in amateur boxing, that he would eventually "suggest" I quit boxing, aand further my education. And that this would lead to my working with his defense team, including helping uncover the Caruso file, which documented that the lead investigator actually knew who had done the shooting -- and it wasn't Rubin and John Artis. (I came to know John, too.) A few years back, one of the gunmen confessed on his death bed.

I have court transcripts, decisions, letters from the prosecution, FBI, the judge, etc., along with all those letters from when Rubin was incarcerated. But those pictures with my kids! I had forgotten exactly where they were. Tomorrow, when all of them are here, I'll have something to give them!