Phenomenological sociology reconsidered

Thomas S. Eberle

pp. 121-132

in: Martin Endreß, Benjamin Rampp (eds), Violence - phenomenological contributions, Human Studies 36 (1), 2013.

Abstract

I love this little book. And one feels that the author loves it, too. It seems as if Fran Waksler had to become a professor emerita (from Wheelock College) in order to finally complete an old pet project. The incident that she investigated happened a long time ago, in January 1973. A man who was later identified as Mark James Essex fired a gun on several floors in a downtown hotel in New Orleans, LA and shot 16 people, 7 of whom died, until he was eventually gunned down by the police when sniping from the roof. But the shooting went on the next day as there presumably existed a second sniper; seven more policemen were wounded, but the second sniper was never found. While the police were first convinced that there was a second sniper, they changed their official assessment over time, based on the collected evidence, and came to the conclusion that there was only one sniper as a second one could not have escaped from the site. The wounded police officers during the shootings on the next...

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Chaput Waksler Frances