02.03.2026
“Subway Vigilante” or “Bigot?” Revisiting the 1984 Bernhard Goetz Shooting
Elliot WIlliams

Elliot Williams is a former federal prosecutor and a CNN legal analyst. He is the author of “Five Bullets: The Story of Bernie Goetz, New York’s Explosive ’80s, and the Subway Vigilante Trial That Divided the Nation.”