Two new books return to the ’80s-era saga of Bernie Goetz to consider the 21st-century intersections of race, crime and ...
In his criminal trial, Goetz was acquitted of the most serious charges, including attempted murder. The defense persuaded the jury that Goetz’s self-incriminating statements to the police — “I was ...
“At one in the afternoon On December 22, 1984,” writes Thompson, “as Bernie Goetz was zipping up his thin windbreaker and ...
On Dec. 22, 1984, Bernard Goetz, a white man, shot and seriously wounded four Black teenagers in a New York City subway ...
Elliot Williams, a CNN legal analyst and frequent commentator for other outlets, wrote “Five Bullets” about the 1984 subway shooting.
Author Elliot Williams joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book 'Five Bullets: The Story of Bernie Goetz, New York's ...
On a mild December day in 1984, a man named Bernie Goetz shot four Black teen-agers on a subway. The incident galvanized the ...
CNN legal analyst Williams debuts with a thorough reassessment of the 1984 subway vigilante shooting, when white 37-year-old Bernhard Goetz shot four Black teenagers on a New York City subway after ...