On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:11:20 -0700, Paul Okami wrote: >I was just responding emotionally to the over-emotionalization in >Ochs lyrics based upon events that did not occur in Genovese's >case and typically do not occur elsewhere (baring conditions of >war, famine, etc.).
Again, I'm not sure I understand. What "did not occur in the Genovese's case"? May I suggest looking at Harold Takooshian's review in PsycCritiques "The 1964 Kitty Genovese Tragedy: Still a Valuable Parable" which review the re-printing of Rosenthal's "Thirty-Eight Witnesses" and Charles Skoller's (the Queen's district attorney who tried Genovese's killer) "Twisted Confessions". A quote is provided below regarding Skoller's book: |Even those few psychologists and others who are highly familiar with |details of the Genovese tragedy will find a trove of unknown new |details here across most of its 21 chapters-about Genovese, her |live-in lover Mary Anne Zielenko, her neighbors, and her killer. |For example, though her killer was a sociopath who reported enjoying |sex with a corpse he had mutilated a month before attacking Genovese, |he was also a doting husband and father of a "normal" Queens family, |and he had an IQ over 130 (p. 28). Though witnesses varied greatly |in their proximity to the two assaults on Genovese, the two witnesses |with by far the clearest view (Joseph Fink and Karl Ross) were never |called at trial because Skoller feared that their callous indifference |would distract the jurors' focus on the killer. Skoller confessed, "It made | me almost sick to my stomach dealing with this man" (p. 53). In contrast, |Skoller describes how Sophie Farrar phoned police immediately upon |hearing that her neighbor Kitty was injured, then fearlessly ran to Kitty's |blood-soaked body and "fell to her knees, and cradled Kitty in her |arms" (p. 25) until the ambulance came to take her to Queens General |Hospital. Joseph Fink and Karl Ross, mentioned in passing above, had failed to call the police even though they clearly saw the attack. Skoller's book is available in limited preview mode on books.google.com and his description of Fink and Ross (and their lack of action) is provided on pages 53-54 which you can read for yourself. Again I ask: what did not happen? -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
