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George Whitmore Jr. (May 26, 1944 – October 8, 2012) was an African American man who was charged but later cleared of the infamous Career Girls Murders that occurred in New York City in 1963. [1] "The Supreme Court cited Mr. Whitmore’s case as 'the most conspicuous example' of police coercion when it issued its 1966 ruling in Miranda v.
The "Career Girls Murders" was the name given by the American media to the murders of Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie, which occurred inside their apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, on August 28, 1963. [1]
East Village Other, New York City, 1965–1972; Edge City, Syracuse, 1970–1971 [1] New York Ace, New York City, 1971–1972; New York Avatar, New York City; New York Free Press, New York City; Other Scenes (dispatched from various locations around the world) [clarification needed] Rat Subterranean News, New York City, 1968–1970 (later Women ...
The Chaney-Goodman-Schwerner Clock Tower of Rosenthal Library, is named in honor of James, Andrew, and Mickey on the CUNY Queens College Campus in New York City. The song "He Was My Brother", released in 1964 by Simon & Garfunkel, is a dedication to Goodman along with two other civil rights activists. [17]
Alton Wayne Roberts (April 6, 1938 – September 11, 1999) was an American murderer and white supremacist.Roberts, a member of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, was convicted for his role in the 1964 Freedom Summer murders.
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The murder did not receive much immediate media attention. It took a remark from New York City Police Commissioner Michael J. Murphy to New York Times metropolitan editor Abe Rosenthal over lunch – Rosenthal later quoted Murphy as saying, "That Queens story is one for the books" – to motivate the Times into publishing an investigative report.
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