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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Without Trumpism, Democrats and anti–Donald Trump conservatives tell themselves, America can once again be the nation it always was. This political moment, many feel certain, is an aberration, an ...
This insightful if dense history from Pulitzer Prize winner Thompson (Blood in the Water) revisits the infamous 1984 New York City subway shooting of four Black teenagers by white 37-year-old Bernhard ...
In 1984, a shooting on a New York City subway thrust Bernie Goetz into the center of the national spotlight. After opening fire on four Black teenagers he said were trying to rob him, Goetz was hailed ...
Subway vigilante Bernie Goetz is back in the spotlight as two new books examine the 1984 incident in which he shot four Black teenagers on a New York City train. Goetz has said he fired because he ...
“At one in the afternoon On December 22, 1984,” writes Thompson, “as Bernie Goetz was zipping up his thin windbreaker and heading down into the subway station,” four teens from the Morrisania section ...
On Dec. 22, 1984, Bernard Goetz, a white man, shot and seriously wounded four Black teenagers in a New York City subway car. Their names were were Barry Allen, Darrell Cabey, Troy Canty, and James ...
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