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Bernhard Goetz  

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  • On December 22, 1984, in the mid-afternoon, a blonde, clean-cut, bespectacled 37-year-old white man boarded a New York City subway train. He was carrying an unlicensed, concealed .38-caliber pistol loaded with five rounds. [Source: Encyclopedia of Street Crime in America; Goetz, Bernhard]

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