THE MURDER OF KITTY GENOVESE
Episode 207 | Historical Events — Mysterious Events
In this Mystery episode we focus on the murder of Kitty Genovese — and the New York Times story that manufactured one of the most influential and most inaccurate narratives in American journalism. On March 13th, 1964, Kitty Genovese was stabbed to death outside her Queens apartment. Two weeks later, the Times published a front-page story claiming 38 witnesses watched her die and no one called the police. The story was largely fabricated.
We examine what actually happened: a neighbor named Sofia Farrar who held Genovese in her arms as she…
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