Trying to get my penpal out of prison
With the help of his father and American boxer Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, Ray Klonsky spent 10 years trying to prove the innocence of his prison penpal.
When filmmaker Ray Klonksy was a teenager he received a letter from David McCallum, an inmate at a New York prison who was already more than 10 years into his sentence for a murder he said he did not commit. The pair became penpals and after a while, Ray and his father Ken started searching for evidence that could prove their new friend's innocence. In a remarkable story of chance encounters, a decade-long fight for justice began, with the help of the world-famous boxer Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter.
Ray made a film about their story, it's called Fight for Justice: David and Me
Presented and produced by Saskia Edwards
This programme was first broadcast in May 2020.
You can find the award-winning Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service podcast 'The Hurricane Tapes' that tells the story of Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter here: /programmes/w13xttt6Can
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Picture: David McCallum and Ray Klonksy at the beach
Credit: Ray Klonksy
(Photo: Ray Klonsky and David McCallum. Credit: Ray Klonsky)
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