In the middle of a September night in 1975, an unknown intruder tried to abduct a teenage girl in Visalia, Calif. When the girl’s father intervened, the criminal shot him dead. The killing of the man, Claude Snelling, was shocking and brutal, but mentioned only briefly on the back page of Fresno City College’s student newspaper. An eight-paragraph write-up about the shooting, which occurred about 45 miles from campus, appeared just below a story about a new hit movie called “Jaws.”

Source: New York Times April 27, 2018 09:00 UTC