Bob Dylan's "Hurricane" is a song about the controversial arrest and imprisonment of Paterson boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter. The wrongful conviction was overturned in 1985, after Carter spent 20 years in jail. The events were dramatized in the 1999 Denzel Washington film, The Hurricane.
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Paterson public schools produced two Nobel Laureates: Nicholas Murray Butler (1931 Nobel Peace Prize) and Frederick Reines (1995 Nobel Prize in Physics).