David McMahon

Ken Burns on the ‘Central Park Five’

New York Mayor Ed Koch called it the “crime of the century.” Millions of women called it the reason not to go into the park at night, ever again. And to this day, it remains one of the biggest media stories of our time. It was called the  Central Park jogger case, and it centered on  Trisha […]

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