Posted on 09/03/2020 9:01:43 AM PDT by Borges
The story of Kitty Genovese, coupled with the number 38, became a parable for urban indifference after Ms. Genovese was stalked, raped and stabbed to death in her tranquil Queens neighborhood.
Two weeks after the murder, The New York Times reported in a front-page article that 37 apathetic neighbors who witnessed the murder failed to call the police, and another called only after she was dead.
It would take decades for a more complicated truth to unravel, including the fact that one neighbor actually raced from her apartment to rescue Ms. Genovese, knowing she was in distress but unaware whether her assailant was still on the scene.
That woman, Sophia Farrar, the unsung heroine who cradled the body of Ms. Genovese and whispered “Help is on the way” as she lay bleeding, died on Friday at her home in Manchester, N.J. She was 92.
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And the current Rat party candidate continues the tradition by blaming the victim in Portland for his own murder.
Taking it a step further from what happened to Kitty Genovese. Which appalled pretty much everyone outside of NYC back then.
After Moseley's death in March 2016, The New York Times called their second story "flawed", stating:
While there was no question that the attack occurred, and that some neighbors ignored cries for help, the portrayal of 38 witnesses as fully aware and unresponsive was erroneous. The article grossly exaggerated the number of witnesses and what they had perceived. None saw the attack in its entirety. Only a few had glimpsed parts of it, or recognized the cries for help. Many thought they had heard lovers or drunks quarreling. There were two attacks, not three. And afterward, two people did call the police. A 70-year-old woman ventured out and cradled the dying victim in her arms until they arrived. Ms. Genovese died on the way to a hospital.
The sources still seem to get to wrong somehow. The woman who just died at age 92 was probably not 70 in 1964. Somebody cradled the dying victim, but I'm not sure who.
I don’t want to get involved..................
Hard to believe any “truth” from NYT, and in this case, it was self reported by the woman, years later.
That Russian/Slavic woman SWORE she was Anastasia from Czar Nicholas, too.
You don’t think it’ll pop people in New York City?
Using a Ouija Board?..................
Democrat neighborhood in a Democrat run big city. Violent crime is so common, a rape and murder does not even draw attention.
If it happened today, everyone would record it on their cellphones.
Meanwhile, the POS killer was spared the death penalty despite the fact that he had killed three women and raped many others, then subsequently escaped from prison and raped another woman, and after that participated in the Attica riots.
Great job as usual, liberal judges.
“and another called only after she was dead.”
How is that possible?
Thanks. I remember reading the story if no one helping wasn’t accurate.
New York Times was fake news even then.
Life is cheap to the liberals.
Those ant decedents are a restless bunch!
Earl Warren’s court spared Richard Speck and others. He ruled the prison he was in as a kingpin.
Especially when it comes from the New York Times.
The first time I worked the wire gate, a light skinned inmate with an afro stopped at the gate. I thought he looked familiar, and asked him for his ID. He told me he was an Admin Building porter. His name was Winston Moseley. He was Kitty Genovese's killer. I had recognized him because prior to becoming an officer, I had attended the local community college, having matriculated in the Criminal Justice Associate's Degree program. I had read a lot of books on famous murderers, and had also watched a program on one of the 3 network channels that had interviewed Moseley. That is where I recognized him from.
Moseley thought he was a lady's man. He would try to strike up a conversation with me whenever I was on that specific post, and I would be very short and curt with him. We had name tags that gave our first initial, and then our last name. My first initial is K. One day he asked me what my first name was, and I told him it wasn't any of his business, and he left for his job up front. After he'd gone, I realized that I should have really shook him up and told him my first name was "Kitty," but I wasn't fast enough to think of it, and always regretted that I missed the chance. I retired in 2003. Moseley had originally gotten the death penalty, but it was commuted to life. He finally died at Clinton Correctional Facility in 2016. The bastard was 81.
Early in my career at Auburn, the officers who worked in the Admin Building controlling the gates, visiting room, etc., pointed out a visitor who had come to see Moseley. Back then, they had visits 7 days a week. Now it's only weekends. This woman turned out to be the woman he had held hostage, and repeatedly raped after he had escaped from an outside hospital trip while he was incarcerated at Attica. I think she was a member of some Christian group who took pity on Moseley. She visited him regularly, brought packages, and left money for him. It was either pity, or she was suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.
Thanks for posting that; it was very interesting.
As a Christian I try to practice forgiveness, but to be honest, I doubt I could ever be that forgiving.
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