The New Orleans Sniper: A Phenomenological Case Study of Constituting the Other

Frances Chaput Waksler

doi:10.5771/9780761853909

Summary

On January 7, 1973, shots were fired from Howard Johnson's Motel in New Orleans, LA. Six were killed, ten wounded. After the first sniper was killed, the search continued for others. A thorough police investigation, however, concluded that there had been only one —- whose body was found on the motel roof. How did the idea of multiple snipers emerge? How was it decided that there had been only one after all? More generally, how does anyone come to a decision about the existence or nonexistence of another person? In prose both analytic and engaging, Waksler traces the course of this event and the claims and counterclaims made in the search to explain it. Please visit Frances Chaput Waksler's website for additional information regarding her biography, publications, and more: www.franceswaksler.com.

Search publication

Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2010
Copyright Year: 2010
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7618-5389-3
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7618-5390-9
Publisher: Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 103
Product Type: Monograph

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Preface No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. The Project No access
2. The Event No access
3. The Data No access
4. Timeline of Key Events No access
1. The Immediate Context for Assumptions No access
2. The Power of First Assumptions No access
1. What One Person is Capable of Doing: Mark Essex (The "First" Sniper) No access
2. 1. Others are Seeable No access
  2. Others and Their Actions are Hearable No access
  3. Turn-Taking (Reciprocity) No access
  4. Leavings No access
  5. Speculation and Conspiracy Theories No access
3. What One person is Capable of Doing: The "Escape" of the Second Sniper No access
4. A Note on Ambiguity: Either/or Explanations No access
5. Legitimating Evidence No access
1. Reworking the Evidence No access
2. NOPD Report No access
3. What One Person is Capable of Doing: Mark Essex (The "First" Sniper) No access
4. 1. Others are Seeable: Sightings at Howard Johnson's No access
  2. Others are Seeable: Retrospective Sightings No access
  3. Others and Their Actions are Hearable No access
  4. Turn-Taking (Reciprocity) No access
  5. Leavings No access
  6. Speculations and Conspiracy Theories No access
5. Lingering Traces of a Second Sniper No access
6. A Path for a Second Sniper No access
Chapter 5: Conclusion No access Pages 75 - 78
Appendix: Witnesses' Sightings and Descriptions of Sniper(s) No access Pages 79 - 92
Bibliography No access Pages 93 - 98
Index No access Pages 99 - 102
About the Author No access Pages 103 - 103