# Event Details - **Event Name**: Elliot Williams - Five Bullets - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 31 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Tue, 31 Mar, 2026 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: A revelatory account of how one man, four teenagers, and a struggling city collided over race, vigilantism, and public safetyAbout this EventCome help us welcome journalist & author Elliot WilliamsWe'll be discussing his latest, Five BulletsTo be held at Solid State Books on H St. NE. Don't miss out! https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/b0fd2f50-1da8-11f1-bcfe-6393e3a0d4d3-rimg-w490-h740-dc2d312c-gmir.jpg CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams, a revelatory account of how one man, four teenagers, and a struggling city collided over race, vigilantism, and public safety . . . exposing the fault lines of a nationOn a dirty New York subway car on December 22, 1984, Bernhard Goetz shot Barry Allen, Darrell Cabey, Troy Canty, and James Ramseur, four teenagers from the Bronx, at point blank range. Goetz claimed they were going to mug him; the teens claim that one of them had simply asked for five dollars.Crime was at an all-time high. So was racial tension. Was Goetz, who was white, a hero who finally fought back? Or a bigot whose itchy trigger finger seriously wounded three unarmed black kids and condemned a fourth to irreversible brain damage? By the time Goetz went on trial for quadruple attempted M**der, the “Subway Vigilante” saga had become a global sensation, and New Yorkers across race and class were split over whether he deserved decades in Pr*son…or a medal.In Five Bullets, Elliot Williams vaults back to gritty 1980s Manhattan and reexamines the first major true-crime story of the cable news era. Drawing on archives and interviews with many main characters, including Goetz, Williams presents a masterful and vivid tale that also tells the origin stories of larger-than-life figures: Al Sharpton, a polarizing young local activist rocketing to national prominence; Rudy Giuliani, a rising-star prosecutor with an important decision to make; the NRA, which needed a poster boy for its transition from hunting club to political juggernaut; and Rupert Murdoch, whose new purchase, the New York Post, grew his empire by keeping a scary story in the headlines.A shocking account of a pivotal moment in our history, Five Bullets demonstrates why, in order to understand today’s debates about race, crime, safety, and the media, it’s imperative to reflect on what went down in the subway four decades ago. As Williams’s powerful narrative reveals, it was not just Goetz on trial, but the conscience of a nationElliot Williams is a CNN legal analyst and regular guest host on SiriusXM and WAMU, NPR’s Washington, DC, station. He has spent his career thinking about law, crime, and politics, serving as a federal prosecutor and later as a senior official at the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security. A Brooklyn-born son of Jamaican immigrants, he grew up in New Jersey and vividly recalls the powder keg that was 1980s New York. He now lives in Washington, DC, with his wife and two children. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/washington/elliot-williams-five-bullets/100001984508427127 - **Event Categories**: sports, art, workshops, fine-arts, literary-art, kids - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 36.67, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Washington - **state**: DC - **country**: United States - **location**: Solid State Books - **lat**: 38.9005105 - **long**: -76.9975298 - **full address**: Solid State Books, 600F H Street Northeast, Washington, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Elliot Williams - Five Bullets - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/ca366a8b8dc7182e993e52da2e927a0d925a437988f475effb3a4568dec9d269-rimg-w1200-h600-dc1e305d-gmir.jpg?v=1773274607 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Elliot Williams - Five Bullets being held? - **A:** Elliot Williams - Five Bullets takes place on Tue, 31 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Tue, 31 Mar, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Solid State Books, 600F H Street Northeast, Washington, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Elliot Williams - Five Bullets? - **A:** Elliot Williams - Five Bullets is organized by Solid State Books. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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