Bernard Goetz

A 48-year-old New Yorker who shot 4 black youths on a subway, leaving one paraplegic

References in periodicals archive ?

Brown's provocative historiography, well-documented, connects the dots from the rugged individualism of gunfighter James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok to geekish "subway vigilante" Bernard Goetz to the courts and law enforcement agencies that support no duty to retreat.

LETTERS IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG

It is not immediately known why Slotnick, best known for representing subway shooter Bernard Goetz in the famed 1984 subway shooting, took on this case.

Creditors aim to force One Madison Park into bankruptcy over $12M in unpaid loans

For an extreme example think Bernard Goetz, who shot four teenagers who were trying to mug him on a New York subway in 1984.

In court of public opinion, he's a hero

Not only was there John Wayne but also Buford Pusser, not only Charles Bronson but also Bernard Goetz, not only Natural Born Killers but also Columbine.

The Myth of the American Superhero

The right kind of impetus, argues Gladwell in a chapter about Bernard Goetz (the most explicitly political section of the book) is often a subtle stimulus that influences how people feel and so directs how they act.

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Byron's piece, "Bernard Goetz, James Ramseur, and Me" is particularly striking, with powerful playing from all the members of the group.

Don Byron: Romance with the Unseen (Blue Note Records 7243 4 99545 2 6)

Among the remaining complexities is one which he confronts but misunderstands in his alarmingly-titled Chapter 7: "Syndromes and Political Theory: The Twilight of Considered Judgment and Citizenship"--the widespread acceptance of the self-defense standard which permitted Bernard Goetz to be found not guilty of murder charges.

More than Victims: Battered Women, the Syndrome Society, and the Law

Even a fairly interesting-but-complex story, such as the indictment of Clark Clifford, cannot be sustained with boring video of Clifford walking past reporters saying "No comment." However, when the newsmaker has done something pretty outrageous, the viewers' blood is sufficiently worked up that just seeing Woody Allen or Bernard Goetz whisking past reporters is enough to support the story.

Murder travels

But the "me-too" mimicry, if it takes pot shots at political correctness, also opens for scrutiny a deeper, darker vein into the living theater of '90s American Gothic in which the ghosts of such infamous do-it-yourselfers as Joe McCarthy and Wilhelm Reich make cameo appearances alongside Bernard Goetz and countless others who had a vision that failed and, who, in the process of their induction into the annals of infamy, got more than a little wacky.

Mike Kelley

Medical browser ?

Full browser ?

CITE

Site: Follow: Share:

Open / Close