he did not commit, attorney Flo Kennedy called Radio Unnameable regularly o keep the case in the consciousness of at least listeners to late night radio, says Fass. He remembers visiting Woodstock during the early 70 and telling Bob Dylan arter was being railroaded for being n uppity nigger. Several years later, Dylan produced his epic song telling the story of the unjust conviction (urricane) and formed his Rolling Thunder Review specifically to raise funds for Carter defense. Fass calls the subsequent retrial and vindication of Carter ne of the great cooperative efforts where hippies and blacks united to achieve change before Jessie Jackson Rainbow Coalition.
Even in the years after Abbie Hoffman 1973 arrest for intent to sell cocaine (Fass believes he was set up), when he changed his name and appearance and went underground, he still surfaced occasionally on Radio