History's Mysteries - Silent Witnesses: The Kitty Genovese Murder (History Channel Documentary)

Narrated by David Ackroyd

In the early hours of 13 March 1964, nearly home from work, 28 year old Kitty Genovese was knifed outside of where she lived. Two weeks after the murder in Kew Gardens, The New York Times published an article claiming that 38 witnesses saw or heard the attack, but none of them called the police or came to her aid.

The incident prompted inquiries into what became known as the bystander effect or "Genovese syndrome", and the murder became a staple of American psychology textbooks for the next four decades. However, researchers have since uncovered major inaccuracies in the New York Times article.

Reporters at a competing news organization discovered in 1964 that the article was inconsistent with the facts, but they were unwilling at the time to challenge New York Times editor Abe Rosenthal. In 2007, an article in the American Psychologist found "no evidence for the presence of 38 witnesses, or that witnesses observed the murder, or that witnesses remained inactive". In 2016, The New York Times called its own reporting "flawed", stating that the original story "grossly exaggerated the number of witnesses and what they had perceived".

~ Summary From Wikipedia

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