See more of our coverage in your search results. He may be a pot dealer now, but “subway vigilante” Bernhard Goetz insists he was definitely not stoned when he opened fire on four teens three decades ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1984, Bernhard Goetz opened fire on four Black men on the New York City subway. He was charged with attempted murder, assault, ...
The sharpened screwdrivers, memorable and imaginary, tell a lot of the story. Three days before Christmas 1984, Bernhard Goetz, a 37-year-old electrical engineer living on 14th Street, got on a ...
Crime isn’t what it was in the 1980s. But a new podcast about the Bernhard Goetz subway shootings suggests that even then, the fear of crime outpaced reality. By Ginia Bellafante Ginia Bellafante ...
The New York Daily News front page from Dec. 23, 1984 Regardless of the grand jury’s decision, America’s response to the shooting of an unarmed black teen by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., ...
The cold winter of 1984 changed New York City forever when a quiet electrical engineer named Bernhard Goetz drew a silver revolver on a subway train and fired at four young men. It was a moment that ...
It took nine days for Bernhard Goetz, then a 37-year-old electronics specialist, to turn himself in after he shot and injured four young Black men on Dec. 22, 1984, in a New York City subway car.