The Death of Kitty Genovese Martin Gansberg was a reporter for the New York times for over 40 years. He was born in Brooklyn, and he earned an award for excellence for writing this article in 1964. Gansberg tells us the story of the murder of “Kitty.” A twenty-eight-year-old Catherine Genovese, who was called “Kitty” by almost everyone in the neighborhood. The man stabbed Kitty to death. Kitty cried for help, and the neighbors heard her, but did not do much to help. After Kitty was dead, the neighbors finally called the police. Throughout the author’s article, Gansberg creates an argument that Kitty Genovese might have survived the attack if the neighbors had intervened. Martin Gansberg, uses an implicit thesis. He was trying to make the
