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I think that in many cases the victim's name gets remembered. The Atlantic has an article in the current issue mentioning Medgar Evers. As it happens, I do rem
by cafard 4y ago
I think that in many cases the victim's name gets remembered.
The Atlantic has an article in the current issue mentioning Medgar Evers. As it happens, I do remember the name of the man who shot Evers, was acquitted then and convicted thirty or forty years later. But I have to fish in my memory for it. I certainly don't remember the names of the Manson adherents who killed Sharon Tate, a bit later in the 1960s.
- zrobotics 4y agoA counterpoint though, I certainly remember the names of many of the American mass shooters and almost none of their victims.
- cafard 4y agoAny interesting point, though at the moment I can't get past Whitman, whose crime occurred almost 60 years ago. So is that one remembers the side with fewer names?