Traveling downtown on an express subway train on Dec. 22, 1984, Bernhard Goetz, a 37-year-old White engineer living in New York’s Greenwich Village, warily eyed four Black teenagers - Barry Allen, ...

Heather Ann Thompson is a professor of history at the University of Michigan and the author of “Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage.” In broad ...

On Dec. 22, 1984, a loner named Bernhard Goetz shot four Black teenagers on a New York City subway, saying they were trying to mug him. The incident sparked an international debate about crime, fear, ...

This world lost an amazing person when we lost Beau Goetz. Beau brought us joy with his smiles, and amazement at his cleverness. He was a hard worker--always going the extra mile to get things done to ...

In the early afternoon of Dec. 22, 1984, four black teenagers were riding the subway in lower Manhattan when a thin and bespectacled man got on. The four had snuck onto a bus, jumped the turnstiles to ...

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Elliot Williams introduces his new book "Five Bullets." In 1984, in a New York subway car, Bernie Goetz opened fire on four black teenagers who he claimed were trying to rob him. At a time when fears ...

The sharpened screwdrivers, memorable and imaginary, tell a lot of the story. Three days before Christmas 1984, Bernhard Goetz, a 37-year-old electrical engineer living on 14th Street, got on a ...

Ben Goetz ('24), a computer engineering grad, joined us for the HokieBird Holiday Photoshoot in December last year and hasn't let Hokie spirit leave him as he begins his career nearby. A two-time ...

Topsy turvy. In/out. Up/down. Left/right. What, which, how our country is today, who knows. I only know what it was when it worked. Newspapers wrote recently about the “subway vigilante” — 1984’s ...

Jan Goetz becomes sole CEO, while Søren Hein is appointed Chief Operating Officer and Deputy CEO. Former Co-CEO Mikko Välimäki transitions out of his commercial role and remains as an advisor until 31 ...