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Thirty-Eight Witnesses
The book Thirty-Eight Witnesses was about a murder in Queens, New York. The book is narrated by a journalist for the New York Times Newspaper. What made this murder set apart from others was that it could have been avoided very easily. The journalist sat down with the city councilman for coffee as he usually did every week. However the councilman had something different to tell him this week. He told him of this murder in which their were thirty-eight witnesses to it and nobody would come forward to what happened. The most disturbing thing of all was that not one of the people who witnessed the murder in progress even called the police. If the would have the girl may have stayed alive. Neighbors were awakened by the screams of the woman but they did nothing. This is what happened to twenty-eight year old Catherine Genovese according to the New York City Police. She was returning home from her job at a bar in Hollis. She parked her......

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