'HURRICANE' CARTER TO SPEAK AT SOUTHEAST

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter will speak on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University April 26.

Carter, a former professional boxer erroneously accused of murder, will speak at the University Center Ballroom at 8 p.m. The lecture, which is sponsored by Student Activities Council, is free and open to the public.

Carter's professional boxing career began in 1961. Five years later, while preparing for a World Championship fight, Carter was arrested for triple murder and sentenced to three life terms, narrowly escaping the electric chair.

However Carter and civil rights activists never gave up, and he was released from prison in 1985. In February 1988, the 22-year indictment was officially dismissed.

Carter's story recently has been made into a major motion picture, "The Hurricane."