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"No One Helped" traces the Genovese story’s development and resilience while challenging the myth it created. Although it is now widely known that there were far fewer actual witnesses to the crime than was reported in 1964, the moral of the story continues to be urban apathy. Fifty years later, the story of Kitty Genovese continues to circulate in popular culture. Genovese’s life, including her lesbian relationship, also was obscured in media accounts of the crime. Front-page reports in the New York Times incorrectly identified thirty-eight indifferent witnesses to the crime, fueling fears of apathy and urban decay. Gallo examines one of America’s most infamous true-crime stories: the 1964 rape and murder of Catherine "Kitty" Genovese in a middle-class neighborhood of Queens, New York. Her second book, “No One Helped”: Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy (Cornell University Press, 2015) examined the social and cultural impact of the story of Catherine “Kitty” Genovese, whose rape and murder in Queens, New York in 1964 became an international symbol of urban apathy amid the upheavals of the civil rights era.In "No One Helped" Marcia M. Currently Gallo is Associate Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she teaches courses on race, gender and sexuality as well as oral history and public history. She also has contributed essays and book chapters exploring post-World War II feminism, progressive queer politics, and oral history methodology to journals as well as edited collections. It won the Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction and was named one of the best books of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle. Her first book, based on her dissertation, was published in 2006 (Carroll & Graf Seal Press, 2007). Her advisor was Distinguished Professor Emeritus Martin Duberman and her dissertation was entitled Different Daughters: The Daughters of Bilitis and the Roots of Lesbian and Women’s Liberation, 1955-1970. from the City University of New York Graduate Center in 2004. Will discuss her position as the 2017-18 New York Public Library Martin Duberman Visiting Scholar March 28 at 2pm History lounge, room 5114