
Thirty-Eight Witnesses
The Kitty Genovese Case
A. M. Rosenthal(Author)
University of California Press
1st Edition
Published on 31. March 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
111 pages
978-0-520-21527-6 (ISBN)
Description
In a decade scarred by some of the worst tragedies in the history of the USA, March 13, 1964, stands apart from the other atrocities, not because of the identity of the victim - whose name was not Kennedy, King or Malcolm - but because of the circumstances. Kitty Genovese was a 28-year-old middle class woman from Kew Gardens, Queens, whose murder was distinguished by the presence of 38 witnesses who did nothing to stop the series of attacks that would claim her life. Thirty years later the Kitty Genovese murder still presses us to ask a litany of questions: Why did these people fail to act? What does it say about the conditions of contemporary urban life? Would it happen today? The account of the story, as related by one of the most controversial American newspaper professionals, has the added dimension of being part memoir, part investigative journalism, and part public service.
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Edition
First Edition, With A New Introduction
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
7 b-w illustrations.
Dimensions
Height: 191 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
136 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-21527-6 (9780520215276)
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Person
A. M. Rosenthal is a columnist and former executive editor of the New York Times. In 1960 he won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from Poland. As assistant managing editor, associate managing editor, managing editor, and executive editor, Rosenthal was in charge of daily news operations at the Times for about sixteen years. The coauthor (with Arthur Gelb) of One More Victim, Rosenthal has also won several Overseas Press Club awards for his reporting from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Afghanistan, (the former) Ceylon, New Guinea, and Vietnam.