Thirty-Eight Witnesses

✍ Scribed by A. M. Rosenthal

• Book ID: 110495881
• Publisher: Open Road Media
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 158 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781504026437

✦ Synopsis

A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist's groundbreaking account of the crime that shocked New York City—and the world
In the early hours of March 13, 1964, twenty-eight-year-old Catherine "Kitty" Genovese was stabbed to death in the middle-class neighborhood of Kew Gardens, Queens. The attack lasted for more than a half hour—enough time for Genovese'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's neighbors witnessed the assault—and none called for help.

To Rosenthal, who had recently returned to New York after spending a decade overseas and would become the Times's longest-serving executive editor, that startling...