“It didn’t seem possible. Kitty Genovese had been viciously stabbed to death in Kew Gardens on March 13, 1964, while her neighbors heard her screams from their apartment windows and looked on passively…Everyone from coast to coast, it seemed, including President Lyndon Johnson, was weighing in on the failure of Kitty’s neighbors to respond to her screams for help. The incident opened up a whole new phenomenon for students of social psychology to explore and puzzle over: the Kitty Genovese syndrome.”
“It didn’t seem possible. Kitty Genovese had been viciously stabbed to death in Kew Gardens on March 13, 1964, while her neighbors heard her screams from their apartment windows and looked on passively…Everyone from coast to coast, it seemed, including President Lyndon Johnson, was weighing in on the failure of Kitty’s neighbors to respond to her screams for help. The incident opened up a whole new phenomenon for students of social psychology to explore and puzzle over: the Kitty Genovese syndrome.”
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