As It Happens

From our archives: the late Rubin "Hurricane" Carter in his own words

"I refuse to allow those who took 20 years of my life to take away any more than that've already taken." From our archives, here is a 1994 interview with Rubin "Hurricane" Carter shortly after he became a landed Canadian immigrant - and received an honourary middleweight world champion belt from the World Boxing Council....
"I refuse to allow those who took 20 years of my life to take away any more than that've already taken." From our archives, here is a 1994 interview with Rubin "Hurricane" Carter shortly after he became a landed Canadian immigrant - and received an honourary middleweight world champion belt from the World Boxing Council.

In an uplifting interview, Mr. Carter tells then-host Michael Enright why he isn't bitter about spending two decades in prison for a crime he had nothing to do with. If you become bitter, he says, "the system has won."

Click the link above to hear their conversation, from January 25, 1994.