City of Toronto All Events http://ift.tt/1Xakmpu Millions think they know the story of Kitty Genovese, a woman who was murdered on March 27, 1964 in NY, with “38 eyewitnesses” doing nothing to help. The incident touched a nerve as a metaphor for a U.S. society that had apparently become numbed and apathetic to violent crime, inspiring books, anniversary media coverage and college courses. In hindsight, the event as reported then in the “paper of record,” the New York Times, has been revealed to be dubious in nearly every detail. James Solomon's The Witness revisits the murky record of the Kitty Genovese murder through the eyes of Kitty's brother Bill, a Vietnam veteran and war amputee.
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