Olaf Gravesen, 37, and John Litaker, 36, were wounded out on the sidewalk. Vincent’s Hospital after an hourslong struggle by doctors to save his life. Jorg Wenz, a 24-year-old Dutch immigrant working as a doorman at the Ramrod, died at St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church, was killed instantly. Vernon Kroening, 32, an organist at nearby St. Several crawled to a stairway at the back of the building in a desperate attempt to survive.” “As bullets sprayed the front window of the bar, panic swept the crowd inside. “In barely the time it takes to light a cigarette, 40 rounds tore into the crowd. “Blood spattered against the wall and door as bullets ripped into one man’s shoulder and another man’s arm,” Mr. Alwood wrote in “Straight News: Gays, Lesbians and the News Media.” “He aimed his Uzi at a group of men standing in line outside the Ramrod bar and squeezed the trigger,” Edward M.
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19, a 38-year-old former transit police officer named Ronald K. “West Street Massacre,” the headline read. 28, 1980, what most of them already knew: that a former transit police officer had rampaged through Greenwich Village, killing two men and wounding six. They were written by the reporter Andy Humm as he told readers of The New York City News on Nov. They were not written this week, but 36 years ago, describing a spasm of violence that fewer and fewer people now recall. The words appeared on the front page of a gay newspaper, heralding an article about bar patrons being gunned down where they stood. “For all of us who were worried that the conservative backlash in this country would bring about unnamed terrible things, the future is now.”