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Posted By: Dave'sWife
22-Apr-05 - 02:54 PM
Thread Name: lyr/Tune Req: 60 or 70 song about the murder in NY
Subject: RE: Tune Req: 60 or 70 song about the murder in NY
I found some very interesting links regarding this case.

I had wanted to see a photo of Kitty Geneovese and found one as part of this article:

Why Did Kitty Genovese Have To Die - The Objectivism Center

The book on the case is back in print and you can read about it HERE:
Thirty-Eight Witnesses: The Kitty Genovese Case by A.M. Rosenthal


For some very detailed photos of where this happened, got to the link below, but be warned - the article is a lengthy piece of Apologia which seeks to explain and excuse the actions of all the witnesses, the Police and anyone else that might have made a difference in the way things played out. These argumenets have all been made before but not usually in one place. The writer has some valid points but it goes on for sooooo loooong and some of the excuses are a bit tortured and tweaked. Still, nothing beats the detail of the photos and the horrific blow by blow of what happened.
The Picture History of Kew Gardens - Kitty Genovese


And finally.. a brief summary of what really happened:


How did Kitty Genovese Die?

At 3:15 A.M., on the night of March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese was returning home from her job as manager of Ev's 11th Hour, a bar in the Hollis section of Queens. Her apartment was in the Kew Gardens section of Queens, a cheerful place with private homes, apartment houses, and neighborhood stores. Like many in the area, Genovese parked her car in a lot adjacent to the Long Island Railroad Station. Although the railroad frowned on the practice, this had been her routine since arriving from Connecticut a year earlier.

Genovese locked her car and began the 100-foot walk to her apartment building, little realizing that she had been spotted leaving the bar and followed. Soon, though, she noticed a man at the far end of the parking lot, she changed direction, heading toward a call box for the 102d police precinct. But she got only as far as a street light when the man grabbed her. "Oh my God, he stabbed me! Please help me! Please help me!" Genovese screamed. Lights went on in a nearby 10-story apartment house and somebody yelled "Let that girl alone!" The assailant walked to a car and drove off. Genovese struggled to her feet. The apartment building's lights went out.

Then the assailant came back and stabbed Genovese again. "I'm dying" Genovese shrieked. "I'm dying!" Again, lights went on. Again, the assailant went to his car and drove away. Again, Genovese struggled to her feet.

Again, the assailant returned. By then, Genovese had crawled to the back of her apartment building. (Because the building has retail stores on the first floor, the entrance to the apartments were in the rear.) The assailant saw Genovese on the floor, at the foot of the stairs. He stabbed her a third time. And Kitty Genovese died. Finally, at 3:50 A.M., the police received a phone call from a neighbor of Genovese's . In two minutes they were on the scene.

Six days later, Winston Moseley was arrested for the murder of Kitty Genovese; in June he was convicted and sentenced to death. Bit in 1967, the state's Court of Appeals reduced Moseley's sentence to life imprisonment. As a result, Moseley lived to see an opportunity to escape, which he took, seizing five hostages and raping one before being recaptured.

At his 1984 parole hearing, Moseley announced that he had written to Genovese's relatives and apologized for the "inconvenience" he had caused them. Parole was denied. In 1995, Moseley (now 60) sought a new trial and won a hearing before a federal court. In the end, though, that request was also denied. He lives on as a prisoner in Comstock, N.Y. Summary written by Roger Donway