Fifty Years After Kitty Genovese: Inside the Case That Rocked Our Faith in Each Other

by Peter Hellman and Albert A. Seedman

Fifty years after she was viciously attacked in full view of several neighbors and within earshot of still more, the name of murder victim Kitty Genovese still conjures the ugly spectre of American apathy. "37 Saw Murder but Didn't Call Police" ran the Times headline that created a legend. A thirty-eighth witness did call--"after much deliberation"--half an hour after the first attack left Kitty wounded on the street. By then, her killer had...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1615194126
• ISBN13: 9781615194124
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Experiment
• Length: 96 Pages