2021 Podcasts
Whatever Happened to Robert Davis?
In 1978, Robert Davis was the youngest child to ever be sent to New York’s Rikers' Island Jail. He was Black, from the Bronx, and only thirteen.
In this episode we look into Robert Davis’s life. We explore his old neighborhood in the South Bronx, his old middle school, and the media frenzy that surrounded his case. We explore how Robert was sucked into a riptide of tough-on-crime political theater that had consumed the country and New York City. And we try to find out where he ended up four decades later, long after his story had faded from the limelight and the city had forgotten his name.
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- 20210518_SL_S02_RobertDavis_PL_v14.pdf application/pdf 508 KB Download File
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- Shoe Leather
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- https://shoeleather.podcasts.library.columbia.edu/podcast/whatever-happened-to-robert-davis/
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- Journalism
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- Shoe Leather
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- July 20, 2022
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Notes
This episode's duration is: 40:12