Lucien Carr killed David Kammerer in August 1944, but was it really an act of self-defence or was it a pre-meditated act of murder?

At the age of 12, Carr met David Kammerer (b. 1911), a man who would have a profound influence on the course of his life. Kammerer was a teacher of English and a physical education …

On August 13, 1944, Kerouac and Carr tried and failed to board a merchant ship out of the city while Kammerer was watching on. He followed Carr to Riverside Park, where the writer claims …

On August the 13th, 1944, David Kammerer was found stabbed to death at the bottom of the Hudson River. Alister Pearson explores the troubled relationship between he and his …

An article on Friday about the 1944 killing of David Kammerer by the Beat Generation figure Lucien Carr misidentified the source of a screenplay based on the killing.

On August 25, 1944, newspapers reported the indictment of 19-year-old Lucien Carr on a charge of second-degree murder for the ‘honour killing’ of David Kammerer.

On August 13, 1944, Lucien Carr stabbed David Kammerer with a Boy Scout knife and threw his body into the Hudson River. He later cited self-defense as the reason, claiming the man was a...

According to the book The Beat Generation in New York by Bill Morgan, the novel was based upon the killing of David Kammerer who was obsessed with Lucien Carr. Carr stabbed …

There, Lucien killed David and dumped his body in the Hudson River. Though it could not be known at the time, this murder would prove to be a seminal event in the creation of the Beat …

Lucien Carr, 19-year-old Columbia University sophomore, was indicted yesterday for second-degree murder in the stabbing of David Kammerer, 33, on Aug. 14. At the same time the police …

His victim was the thirty-one-year-old David Kammerer, a tall lanky man with dark-red hair and a high-pitched voice who was a friend of William Burroughs. The two lived near each other in …

The Lucien Carr murder of David Kammerer was front-page news in the New York Times in 1944, but the story there doesn’t examine any of the psychological aspects. Kammerer is just treated …

Kammerer doesn't take it well — and the tension between the Carr and Kammerer culminates in the older man's murder. After killing Kammerer, Carr enlists the help of his Beat friends — …

The nineteen-year-old Carr stabbed another member of the group, David Kammerer, in Riverside Park, with a Boy Scout knife, and dumped his body in the Hudson River.

In 1944, Kerouac was arrested as a material witness in the murder of David Kammerer, who had been stalking Kerouac's friend Lucien Carr since Carr was a teenager in St. Louis. William …

They called [Kammerer’s murder] an ‘honor slaying’ or the ‘homosexual panic’ defense.” Similarly, the Beats had mixed feelings about the academy coming to Carr’s rescue. Johnson writes that …

On August 14, 1944, Lucien Carr, a friend of William S. Burroughs from St. Louis, stabbed a man named David Kammerer with a Boy Scout knife and threw his body in the Hudson River. For …

On August 16, 1944, 19-year-old Lucien Carr, accompanied by a lawyer, appeared at the office of New York District Attorney Frank S. Hogan and admitted to killing his friend David Kammerer …

David Kammerer was 33 when he was killed | Source. The media quickly dubbed David’s death an “honor killing” which later became known as the “gay panic defense.”

Christoph Waltz, Felix Kammerer, Lars Mikkelsen, David Bradley, Christian Convery and Charles Dance also star. Del Toro, J. Miles Dale and Scott Stuber produce.