Thirty-Eight Witnesses : The Kitty Genovese Case

Label

Thirty-Eight Witnesses : The Kitty Genovese Case

Title remainder

The Kitty Genovese Case

Statement of responsibility

A. M. Rosenthal

Title variation

• 38 witnesses
• Kitty Genovese case

Creator

• Rosenthal, A. M., (Abraham Michael), 1922-2006

Subject

• Telephone -- United States -- Emergency reporting systems
• Social ethics
• Witnesses -- New York (State) | New York
• Police -- New York (State) | New York
• Genovese, Catherine, -1964
• TRUE CRIME / Murder / General
• Responsibility
• Murder -- New York (State) | New York
• Apathy

Language

eng

Summary

A Pulitzer Prize{u2013}winning journalist{u2019}s groundbreaking account of the crime that shocked New York City{u2014}and the world In the early hours of March 13, 1964, twenty-eight-year-old Catherine 2Kitty3 Genovese was stabbed to death in the middle-class neighborhood of Kew Gardens, Queens. The attack lasted for more than a half hour{u2014}enough time for Genovese{u2019}s assailant to move his car and change hats before returning to rape and kill her just a few steps from her front door. Yet it was not the brutality of the murder that made it international news. It was a chilling detail Police Commissioner Michael Joseph Murphy shared with A. M. Rosenthal of the New York Times: Thirty-eight of Genovese{u2019}s neighbors witnessed the assault{u2014}and none called for help. To Rosenthal, who had recently returned to New York after spending a decade overseas and would become the Times{u2019}s longest-serving executive editor, that startling statistic spoke volumes about both the turbulence of the 1960s and the enduring mysteries of human nature. His impassioned coverage of the case sparked a firestorm of public indignation and led to the development of the psychological theory known as the 2bystander effect.3 Thirty-Eight Witnesses is indispensable reading for students of journalism and anyone seeking to learn about one of the most infamous crimes of the twentieth century

Cataloging source

CtWfDGI

Dewey number

364.152/3092

Index

no index present

LC call number

HV6534.N5

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adult