Review: The Witness
 

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The murder of 28-year-old Kitty Genovese on a deserted street in Queens, New York in 1964 reverberated around the globe and came to symbolize the arrival of a less innocent era. According to a front-page story in The New York Times published two weeks after Genovese?s funeral, 38 people watched her protracted assault from a 10-story apartment building but did nothing to help.?