Rubin at about 18 in the Army

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter

(AP)

Bob Dylan and Joan Baez performing at the "Night of the Hurricane" benefit concert

(Alamy)

Denzel Washington as Rubin in "The Hurricane"

(Alamy)

Denzel Washington and Rubin Carter

(Alamy)

Rubin Carter, Older

(Michael Borkson / CC BY-SA 2.0)

Georgia:

The wrongful convictions of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter

Episode sources:

1. The Sixteenth Round by Rubin “Hurricane” Carter

2. “Rubin (Hurricane) Carter, Boxer Found Wrongly Convicted, Dies at 76” by Selwyn Raab (The New York Times) 2014

3. “Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter” by James S. Hirsch

4. “False testimony led to his conviction?; The Sixteenth Round; From Number 1 Contender to 45472” by Henrietta J. Burroughs  (The New York Times) 1974

5. “The Hurricane: the facts of Rubin Carter's life story are beaten to a pulp” by Alex von Tunzelmann (The Guardian) 2014

6. Rubin "Hurricane" Carter Papers (Tufts University)

7. “Rubin Carter” (Exoneration Registry)

8. “Hurricane” by Amy Lofthouse (BBC) 2019

9. “New York man wrongfully convicted of murder freed after 29 years in prison” (AP) 2014

Karen:

The survival story of Lieutenant Leon Crane

Episode sources:

1. “81 Days Below Zero: The Incredible Survival Story of a World War II Pilot in Alaska’s Frozen Wilderness” by Brian Murphy with Toula Vlahou

2. “A WWII Survival Story from the Charley River” (NPS)

3. “Lost in the wilderness for 81 days: The torturous tale of Leon Crane’s first Christmas in Alaska” by David Reamer (Anchorage Daily News) 2023

4. “Leon Crane Survived a Plane Crash and 80 Days in the Alaskan Winter” (Adventure Journal) 2021

5. “Valor: Alone in the Arctic” by John L. Frisbee (Air & Space Forces Magazine) 1997

6. “Yukon River” by J. Lewis Robinson (Britannica)

7. “Is It Safe To Eat Snow?” (Cleveland Clinic) 2024

Leon Crane

The crash site in Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve

(National Park Service)

Map of Leon's journey

(National Park Service)

Leon Crane one year after the crash