{"product_id":"9781504026437","title":"Thirty-Eight Witnesses: The Kitty Genovese Case","description":"\u003cb\u003eA Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist’s groundbreaking account of the crime that shocked New York City—and the world\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the early hours of March 13, 1964, twenty-eight-year-old Catherine “Kitty” Genovese was stabbed to death in the middle-class neighborhood of Kew Gardens, Queens. The attack lasted for more than a half hour—enough time for Genovese’s assailant to move his car and change hats before returning to rape and kill her just a few steps from her front door.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Yet it was not the brutality of the murder that made it international news. It was a chilling detail Police Commissioner Michael Joseph Murphy shared with A. M. Rosenthal of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e: Thirty-eight of Genovese’s neighbors witnessed the assault—and none called for help.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e To Rosenthal, who had recently returned to New York after spending a decade overseas and would become the \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e’s longest-serving executive editor, that startling statistic spoke volumes about both the turbulence of the 1960s and the enduring mysteries of human nature. His impassioned coverage of the case sparked a firestorm of public indignation and led to the development of the psychological theory known as the “bystander effect.”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThirty-Eight Witnesses\u003c\/i\u003e is indispensable reading for students of journalism and anyone seeking to learn about one of the most infamous crimes of the twentieth century.","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182764441840,"sku":"9781504026437","price":4.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781504026437_p0.jpg?v=1769897246","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781504026437","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}