Dec. 20, 1963: Carter vs Griffith -- A Hurricane Comes To Pittsburgh

Dec. 20, 1963: Carter vs Griffith -- A Hurricane Comes To Pittsburgh

You should forget that Bob Dylan song for a minute. Don’t even think about Denzel Washington. Get beyond the courtrooms, the jail cells. Go back to Pittsburgh. Was a storm in that city in 1905. Hurricane Bronson, 800 miles wide, moving at 140 miles an hour. Hurricane Toman in 1953, destroyed Forbes Field, a category 5 cyclone. And then there was a man named Hurricane Carter, came along ten years later in ’63, that big bad sonofabitch swinging li…