1964 was a very eventful year for America; the people were still mourning the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, race riots, boycotts, the civil rights movement, thermonuclear tests, political divisions, violent images multiplied at the time. On television and in movies, a growing drug culture was becoming apparent and crime rates were rising rapidly (www.historyorb.com). New York City experienced more than 600 murders in 1964 alone (Lemann), and residents were overwhelmed with fear. Yet during this horrific time in our history, a journalist wrote an article specifically designed to arouse moral outrage among the citizens of New York and around the world. Martin Gansberg of the New York Times focuses on thirty-eight frightened residents of a middle-class neighborhood in Queens, New York, and openly accuses them of indifference while witnessing the brutal attacks on Kitty Genovese, who ultimately led to his death. He used tactics of yellow journalism, a term meaning sensationalizing a story for the express purpose of selling newspapers, (oxforddictionaries.com) to carefully craft his version of the truth to fit this accusation; by leaving out important details and falsifying others, he paints a partially accurate (but mostly inaccurate) picture, endangering the murder charge against Winston Moseley. Inaccuracies abound in Gansberg's account of how the crime took place, but they were not discovered until much later. “…law-abiding citizens of Queens watched as a killer stalked and stabbed a woman in three separate attacks (Gansberg)…” According to Nicholas Lemann of the New Yorker magazine, “there were two attacks, not three.” Gansberg also said that "no one called the police during the attack." However, Lemann discovers...... middle of paper ......vior, and yet it is all too common these days. Before you believe everything you read or see in the news, check multiple sources. With so much information at our fingertips, I see no reason why we would simply believe everything we are told, taking the news at face value. Works Cited Gansberg, Martin. “Thirty-Eight People Who Saw a Murder Didn't Call the Police” Models for Academic Writing: A Reader and Rhetorical Guide. 12th ed. Ed. Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell. Boston: Bedford, 2012. 240-3. Print. "Historical events of the year 1964." HistoryOrb.com and Web. May 06. 2014. LeMann, Nicolas. “A Cry for Help: What Kitty Genevose’s Story Really Means.” The New Yorker (2014): Pages. 05/06/2014 "Yellow journalism." OxfordDictionaries.com. 2014 Oxford University Press.Web. May 6 2014.