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The Gist

The Myth of Kitty Genovese's Murder

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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On The Gist, filmmaker James Solomon discusses his documentary The Witness, which reinvestigates the death of Kitty Genovese—whose reported murder became emblematic of New York City indifference. In the film, Kitty's brother Bill goes on a quest to figure out what really happened and finds little truth in the earliest newspaper accounts. For the Spiel, Siri runs away with your radio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:02.4

It's Thursday June 2nd, 2016 from Slate. It's the GIST I'm Mike Pasca.

1:07.3

And on this show we have played a lot of Donald Trump. He is entertaining, he's open, he's

1:13.6

fascinating, he's funny, but he's also dangerous, unqualified and wrong.

1:18.0

So let me now just play one clip from Hillary Clinton's speech delivered today in San Diego.

1:23.6

It's an almost 40-second long clip and here it is.

1:48.0

He is not just unprepared, he is temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge,

2:02.4

stability and immense responsibility. And that is the deal, isn't it? Her further arguments in

2:09.5

that speech expanded on the theme, pointing out that we're lucky to have two allies at our

2:14.3

borders. Why would we want to antagonize Mexico into the status of enemy? Pointing out then when

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