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On March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese was brutally beaten and murdered in the pub near her apartment, in full view of more than three dozen others who live nearby - and no person did something to stop it. A lot more than thirty-five years following its first publication, Thirty-Eight Witnesses, the true accounts of what transpired that evening in Queens, NY, continues to disturb us. We wish to feel that we would step in and do what we could to stop the carnage. However, not much has improved in the ensuing years, as crime goes on all around us and we do nothing to help. Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter A. M. Rosenthal covered the situation for the paper as its city editor, and his chronicle of the happenings became this publication. Part memoir, part investigative journalism, part sociological research, a disturbing account of metropolitan apathy, Thirty-Eight Witnesses puts listeners on the gritty sidewalk of the murder field and talks of the need for change. Inside the ensuing years, the situation has become famous, and today in criminology classes, students find out about witnesses and the Genovese Impact. A new foreword talks about the historical legacy of the case and exactly how little has improved in fifty-plus years.
