Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America

Kitty Genovese

The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America

2014 • 272 pages

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Recounts the events of March 13, 1964, when a young woman in Queens was slain in plain sight of witnesses who heard her cries for help but chose not to get involved.


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