Heather Ann Thompson is a professor of history at the University of Michigan and the author of “Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage.” In broad ...

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 ...

Katherine Matt is an intern for The Daily Signal. In a wide?ranging interview with The Daily Signal, CNN legal analyst and author Elliot Williams revisits one of the most polarizing criminal cases in ...

Topsy turvy. In/out. Up/down. Left/right. What, which, how our country is today, who knows. I only know what it was when it worked. Newspapers wrote recently about the “subway vigilante” — 1984’s ...

Without Trumpism, Democrats and anti–Donald Trump conservatives tell themselves, America can once again be the nation it always was. This political moment, many feel certain, is an aberration, an ...

This insightful if dense history from Pulitzer Prize winner Thompson (Blood in the Water) revisits the infamous 1984 New York City subway shooting of four Black teenagers by white 37-year-old Bernhard ...

Subway vigilante Bernie Goetz is back in the spotlight as two new books examine the 1984 incident in which he shot four Black teenagers on a New York City train. Goetz has said he fired because he ...

Author Elliot Williams joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book 'Five Bullets: The Story of Bernie Goetz, New York's Explosive '80s, and the Subway Vigilante Trial That Divided the Nation'. Image ...

Elliot Williams, a CNN legal analyst and frequent commentator for other outlets, wrote his first book, “Five Bullets,” about the 1984 Bernhard Goetz subway shooting. “Five Bullets: The Story of Bernie ...

On the project to partially reconstruct the Howard Street Tunnel in Baltimore for railroad company CSX Corp., Skanska Project Manager Michael Goetz found the way forward to deliver the project safely ...