Media Meddlers: The Real Truth About the Murder Case Against Rubin “Hurricane” Carter

Media Meddlers is a provocative book that not only addresses one of the nation's most controversial murder cases, but also indicts a sacred institution— the media—for the way some of its members used the power of the First Amendment to turn justice into injustice. Seldom has there been written a book that so clearly exposes the abuse of freedom of speech.Early on the morning of June 17, 1966, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, then at the height of his career as a professional middleweight boxer, and his friend, young John Artis, walked into the Lafayette Grill in Paterson, New Jersey, and blasted away with a shotgun and .32 caliber pistol, killing two men and a woman. Another man, shot through the head, miraculously survived. A celebrity athlete is arrested for a brutal triple murder at the Lafayette Grill in Paterson, New Jersey in 1966. The facts of the case have been obscured by decades of legal wrangling, accusations of racism and frame-ups, a Bob Dylan ballad, and a Hollywood movie. Does anyone know the truth? In this never-before-published account, Vincent DeSimone Jr., the lead detective on the Lafayette Grill murder case, lays out the investigation into a shocking crime, explains why he became convinced that “Hurricane” Carter was the killer, and recalls how he and his fellow officers were vilified as corrupt, racist cops. The true, definitive, and inside account of the Lafayette Grill murders.