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The Story of the Kitty Genovese Story

Nicholas Lemann looks at the implications of the media’s coverage of the Kitty Genovese story: An excellent example is the murder of Kitty Genovese, a twenty-eight-year-old bar manager, by Winston Moseley, a twenty-nine-year-old computer punch-card operator, just after three in the morning on Friday, March 13, 1964, in Kew Gardens, Queens. The fact that this […]

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