Elliot Williams

@CNN legal analyst. Get your copy of FIVE BULLETS here:

[Elliot Williams @elliotcwilliams]

📚🎉 Was it self-defense? Or racist vigilante violence?

Both!

My book, Five Bullets, about the 1984 "Subway Vigilante" shooting, is out today. Here's the video Penguin Press put out about it.

Check it out to see what America has been fighting about for 40 years...

[Elliot Williams @elliotcwilliams]

@bethesdabeth Noooooooooo! That's heartbreaking

[Elliot Williams @elliotcwilliams]

Coming up on Thursday -- @CapehartJ and me at the @dcpl MLK Library. Free, June 11 at 7 p.m.

Pass it on to anyone who will be in DC that night!

[Elliot Williams @elliotcwilliams]

Hey, DC -- join @CapehartJ and me next Thursday at the @dcpl MLK library talking about my book, FIVE BULLETS!

[Elliot Williams @elliotcwilliams]

DC -- join @CapehartJ and me next Thursday!

[DC Public Library @dcpl]

A subway shooting. A divided city. A story that still echoes today.

“Five Bullets” author Elliot Williams unpacks the 1984 Bernhard Goetz case—how it happened and why it mattered—in conversation with Jonathan Capehart.

📍 MLK Library
🗓️ June 11 | 7PM
🎟️ https://t.co/dpYjBbX99t

[Elliot Williams @elliotcwilliams]

Hey, DC -- join @CapehartJ and me next Thursday at the @dcpl MLK library talking about my book, FIVE BULLETS!

[DC Public Library @dcpl]

A subway shooting. A divided city. A story that still echoes today.

“Five Bullets” author Elliot Williams unpacks the 1984 Bernhard Goetz case—how it happened and why it mattered—in conversation with Jonathan Capehart.

📍 MLK Library
🗓️ June 11 | 7PM
🎟️ https://t.co/dpYjBbX99t

[Elliot Williams @elliotcwilliams]

Come with questions! Can't wait.
📅 June 11 | 7–8:30pm
📍 MLK Library | 901 G St NW, DC
🎟 Free — register: https://t.co/MJRDb7wFvv

[Elliot Williams @elliotcwilliams]

My book Five Bullets comes to DC on June 11 — and I'll be joined in conversation by my friend, Pulitzer Prize winner Jonathan Capehart (@CapehartJ) at @DCLibrary's MLK branch. Free. 7pm. 🧵

[Elliot Williams @elliotcwilliams]

👀The Goetz case was the first major true-crime story of the cable news era — where Al Sharpton found his platform, where Rudy Giuliani made a fateful decision, where Rupert Murdoch learned fear sells papers. I wrote this book because those threads run straight to the present...

[Elliot Williams @elliotcwilliams]

@chopinc33 @CNN Thanks for watching! 😍

[Elliot Williams @elliotcwilliams]

📚🎉 Was it self-defense? Or racist vigilante violence?

Both!

My book, Five Bullets, about the 1984 "Subway Vigilante" shooting, is out today. Here's the video Penguin Press put out about it.

Check it out to see what America has been fighting about for 40 years...

[Elliot Williams @elliotcwilliams]

@therchrd @jackmjenkins I concur

[Elliot Williams @elliotcwilliams]

So great talking FIVE BULLETS and all things 1980s NYC with @pescami -- he truly understood the book and the issues behind it, and it all made for a great episode of @pescagist. Give it a listen!

[The Gist @PescaGist]

CNN legal analyst and author of Five Bullets @elliotcwilliams explains how Gregory Waples' remarks alienated jurors in the Bernie Goetz trial. But was he that far off?

Plus fear, juror psychology, to the limits of legal authority.

@pescami
#TheGistPodcast #ElliotWilliams #BernieGoetz #CriminalJustice #NYCHistory

[Elliot Williams @elliotcwilliams]

Great interviewing you for "Five Bullets," Scott! My fave anecdote from you was that for a while after the trial, Bernie Goetz would randomly come sit in the waiting room of your law firm, just wanting to talk. What a crazy story. (Which in an email the other day, he disputed.)

[Scott Greenfield @ScottGreenfield]

Interesting that two books are coming out about Bernhard Goetz. Only one, Elliot Williams, spoke with me about the case.
https://t.co/BVHMqN4ZZP

[Elliot Williams @elliotcwilliams]

@GeoffRBennett @vaughn_hilton Seconded!

[Elliot Williams @elliotcwilliams]

@LuluGNavarro

[Elliot Williams @elliotcwilliams]

Thanks so much, @LuluGNavarro! I appreciate you!

[Lulu NYT @LuluGNavarro]

Congratulations to my pal @elliotcwilliams on the launch of his incredible book which has such deep resonance today. It’s a deep read on vigilantism, race and our American experience. I love it and you will too. Five Bullets is out now.

[Elliot Williams @elliotcwilliams]

High praise! I, and MY BOOK FIVE BULLETS, OUT IN STORES NOW, will take it

[Tevi Troy @TeviTroy]

“Thanks to @ElliotCWilliams. Check out the book, #FiveBullets, which he came close to Tevi Troy levels of book title mentioning his book title, which was impressive…” @jonahdispatch @jonahremnant https://t.co/yxpEYOzvV3

[Elliot Williams @elliotcwilliams]

@DickYoungsGhost @JasonPCriss @richarddeitsch @nypost @NYDailyNews All were sources for the book "Five Bullets!"

[Elliot Williams @elliotcwilliams]

Thank you, @LawProfButler! I'm so thrilled by the attention the book is getting...

[Paul Butler @LawProfButler]

Excited about my friend @elliotcwilliams's important new book that's out today! It's smart, and a great read. Check it out.

[Elliot Williams @elliotcwilliams]

You're the best, @JoyceWhiteVance. Thank you!!!

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

This is one of my two new must read books. @elliotcwilliams is as good of a writer as he is a researcher. I’ll be sharing this one with my students for years to come.

[Elliot Williams @elliotcwilliams]

Bless you, @juliettekayyem!

[Juliette Kayyem @juliettekayyem]

Got mine! What an incredible read about America. Congrats to @elliotcwilliams on pub day.