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 ...
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 of rising crime were rife, some saw Goetz as a hometown ...
Two new books return to the ’80s-era saga of Bernie Goetz to consider the 21st-century intersections of race, crime and sensationalism. By David Segal Bernie Goetz is still here. The white man who ...
Two new books trace an arc from the notorious Bernie Goetz case to the spread of vigilantism today. By Jennifer Szalai FEAR AND FURY: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One Saturday afternoon in December 1984, a man got onto the number 2 train going downtown at West 14th Street in Greenwich Village ...
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Long Before MAGA’s White Grievance, There Was Bernie Goetz
On December 22, 1984, a pale, dweeby, thirty-seven-year-old white man named Bernhard Goetz boarded a subway car bound for ...
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