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How Did The Kitty Genovese Murder Go Viral?

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Single Sided Reporting How did the false story of the Kitty Genovese murder go viral? Twenty-eight year old African American Winston Moseley murdered and raped Catherine Genovese in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York. She was twenty-eight years old and was called Kitty by everyone in the neighborhood. The Kitty murder was one of the most famous crimes in New York history because of the newspaper article “37 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police” presented by the New York Times (NYT) written by Martin Gansberg. In the article, Gansberg laid out a terrifying scenario in which he claims 38 of the witnesses watched Moseley murder and rape Genovese in three separate attacks. Why didn’t anyone try to help her? The Witness (2015) directed by James D. Solomon follows Bill Genovese, the victim's younger brother …show more content…

Nicholas Lemann claims in his article, ''A Call For Help'' that in 1964, ten days after the Kitty murder, A.M. Rosenthal NYT newspaper's editor meet with New York City's police commissioner Michael Murphy. Rosenthal heard the story from Murphy and Rosenthal was interested in exploring the apathetic bystander angle, so any information that pointed to the witness's help was omitted by Gansberg. Gansberg presented the story from bystander angle, which represented a group of people from Queens uncaring and wild. The Gansberg's Article more focuses on the ''witnesses'' as a guilty party than the killer Moseley. The documentary shows that Moseley also murdered, and raped African American woman named Annie Mae Johnson. Moseley, admitted to the crime in 1964, but his son, whom Bill Genovese interviewed during the documentary, believed his father killed Kitty because she had yelled racial slurs at him. Moseley's son statement raised many questions; like, why he killed Johnson? She was African American, but no one questions Gansberg's article because the NYT had a good

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