There has been a discussion about two New York Times articles, related to the murder of Kitty Genovese, “Thirty-Eight Who Witnessed a Murder Didn’t Call Police” (1964) and “Kitty, 40 Years Later” (2004), which talks about how she got murdered and gives us information about her, the killer, and the witnesses who watched. Gansberg wrote his dramatic article to call our attention to the shameful fact that no one who witnesses her murder called the police while Rasenberger wrote his article to honor the victim, to correct misinformation, and to inform us about what psychologists have learned since about what psychologists have learned since about the behavior of witnesses.
When the event first happened, nobody payed much attention to it, but after two weeks the article “Thirty- Eight Who Witnessed a Murder Didn’t Call Police” came out written by Martin Gansberg’s. In his article, he writes about how she got murdered, and the neighbors who saw it happen. Mostly in his article, he observes the people in that town and building. He is very “surprised” that not one person from the thirty-eight didn’t call the police. He “throw shades” at them but in a very respectable way …show more content…
The article informs us more about the murderer, that his name is Winston Moseley, and he was arrested six days later. He is married, has two kids, and owns a house in Queens. He has killed women before, and Kitty was one of them. In the second article by Rasenberger he gives more details about how the murder followed her and stalked her. Also in one part of the second article by Rasenberger, he notes that the murder went to his car to change his hat because one of the neighbors saw him when Kitty was screaming for help, and he moved his car to a more discrete location. But in the first article by Gansberg, it just says that he went to his car and came back to finish what he
When the event first happened, nobody payed much attention to it, but after two weeks the article “Thirty- Eight Who Witnessed a Murder Didn’t Call Police” came out written by Martin Gansberg’s. In his article, he writes about how she got murdered, and the neighbors who saw it happen. Mostly in his article, he observes the people in that town and building. He is very “surprised” that not one person from the thirty-eight didn’t call the police. He “throw shades” at them but in a very respectable way …show more content…
The article informs us more about the murderer, that his name is Winston Moseley, and he was arrested six days later. He is married, has two kids, and owns a house in Queens. He has killed women before, and Kitty was one of them. In the second article by Rasenberger he gives more details about how the murder followed her and stalked her. Also in one part of the second article by Rasenberger, he notes that the murder went to his car to change his hat because one of the neighbors saw him when Kitty was screaming for help, and he moved his car to a more discrete location. But in the first article by Gansberg, it just says that he went to his car and came back to finish what he