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Debunking the myth of Kitty Genovese

By Larry Getlen February 16, 2014 | 1:46am

 

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Catherine "Kitty" Genovese, a bar manager, was stabbed to death in March 1964 as she returned home to the Kew Gardens section of Queens. Photo: AP

At 3:15 on the morning of March 13, 1964, a 28-year-old bar manager named Kitty Genovese drove her red Fiat into the parking lot of the LIRR station by her Kew Gardens home.

 

As she walked home — she was only about “a hundred paces away” from the apartment she shared with her girlfriend, Mary Ann Zielonko — she heard a man’s footsteps close behind her. She ran, but the man, Winston Moseley, was too quick. He caught her, slammed her to the ground and stabbed her twice in the back. She screamed twice, once yelling, “Oh, God! I’ve been stabbed!”

 

Across the street, a man named Robert Mozer heard Genovese from his apartment. Looking out his seventh-floor window, he saw a man and a woman, sensed an ­altercation — he couldn’t see exactly what was happening — and yelled out his window, “Leave that girl alone!”

 

Moseley later testified that Mozer’s action “frightened” him, sending him back to his car. At this point, Genovese was still alive, her wounds nonfatal. Scissors-32x32.png

http://nypost.com/2014/02/16/book-reveals-real-story-behind-the-kitty-genovese-murder/

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Manhood, honor, and Christian charity are dead

By: streiff (Diary) | July 10th, 2015 at 10:03 AM

 

On March 13, 1964, 28-year-old Kitty Genovese was walking from her car to her apartment. She was stabbed multiple times, raped, and left to die. No one lifted a finger to save her. In her death she became a icon for the uncaring city dweller, in particular for the uncaring New Yorker. Though we know much of the story originally published by the New York Times was false, in fact several people called the police and at total of 49 were eventually to give evidence as eyewitnesses of one type or another, the fact remains that no one did anything. From the NY Post article Debunking the myth of Kitty Genovese we have these vignettes:

 

Across the street, a man named Robert Mozer heard Genovese from his apartment. Looking out his seventh-floor window, he saw a man and a woman, sensed an ­altercation — he couldn’t see exactly what was happening — and yelled out his window, “Leave that girl alone!” Scissors-32x32.png

http://www.redstate.com/2015/07/10/manhood-honor-christian-charity-dead/

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