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Subject: The Kitty Genovese Story
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 17:18:01 -0400
From: AHM
To: Howie Carr
The narrative is a NY Times fabrication.
There's a book about the case, by Kevin Cook:
Kitty Genovese:
The story that 38 people ignored her screams is a tissue of lies by the
New York Times reporter that Sulzberger put on the case.
The first paragraph of the Times' first story gets six facts wrong.
To quote an excerpt from the book, with my bolding:
... De May, ... a maritime lawyer ... has ... delved
into the crime that made his neighborhood notorious,
"and the more time I spent with it, the more questions I had."
He has studied the Times front-page story of March 27,
1964, dozens of times as if it were a legal brief.
Comparing the story to police reports, trial
transcripts, and other news accounts, "I found six
factual errors in the first paragraph."
Here is how De May might annotate that lead paragraph:
For more much less than half an hour 38 two respectable, law-abiding
citizens in Queens watched a killer stalk and stab a
woman in three two separate attacks in Kew Gardens.
Twice Once the sound of their voices and the sudden glow of
their bedroom lights interrupted him and frightened him
off. Each time he returned, sought her out and stabbed
her again.
Not one One person telephoned the police during the assault, but
the police didn't even bother to investigate;
one witness called after the woman was dead while Kitty was still alive.