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Author Waksler, Frances Chaput

Title The New Orleans sniper : a phenomenological case study of constituting the other / Frances Chaput Waksler
Published Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 102 pages)
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; The Project; The Event; The Data; Timeline of Key Events; Chapter 2: Constituting the Other: The Context; The Immediate Context for Assumptions; The Power of First Assumptions; Chapter 3: Constituting the Other: The Evidence; What One Person is Capable of Doing: Mark Essex (The ""First"" Sniper); Signs of an Other; Others are Seeable; Others and Their Actions are Hearable; Turn-Taking (Reciprocity); Leavings; Speculation and Conspiracy Theories
What One person is Capable of Doing: The ""Escape"" of the Second SniperA Note on Ambiguity: Either/or Explanations; Legitimating Evidence; Chapter 4: The Aftermath: Unconstituting the Other; Reworking the Evidence; NOPD Report; What One Person is Capable of Doing: Mark Essex (The ""First"" Sniper); Reworking Signs of an Other; Others are Seeable: Sightings at Howard Johnson's; Others are Seeable: Retrospective Sightings; Others and Their Actions are Hearable; Turn-Taking (Reciprocity); Leavings; Speculations and Conspiracy Theories; Lingering Traces of a Second Sniper
A Path for a Second SniperChapter 5: Conclusion; Appendix: Witnesses' Sightings and Descriptions of Sniper(s); Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Summary On January 7, 1973, shots were fired from Howard Johnson's Motel in New Orleans, LA. Six were killed, ten wounded, and the debate began about the number of snipers. Waksler traces the course of this event and analyzes claims and counterclaims made in the search to explain it
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-98) and index
Notes English
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Subject Essex, Mark
SUBJECT Essex, Mark fast
Subject Murder -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Case studies
Police -- Violence against -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Case studies
Other (Philosophy) -- Case studies
Phenomenology -- Case studies
TRUE CRIME -- General.
Murder
Other (Philosophy)
Phenomenology
Police -- Violence against
Louisiana -- New Orleans
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010936059
ISBN 9780761853909
0761853901
1283614383
9781283614382
9786613926838
6613926833