Jon Kalish's Bernhard Goetz Reports

When a white man shot four Black teens inside a subway car before disappearing into a tunnel just before Christmas Eve in 1984, young reporter Jon Kalish was assigned to the story by NPR. When Bernhard Goetz turned himself on New Year's Eve, confessing that "I wanted to waste them all," what came next seemed clear to Kalish. Instead, the Manhattan district attorney struggled to even indict Goetz before a jury eventually acquitted him of all charges except for possession of...