David Kushner

By Joseph Cooper,

Published November 30, 2016 at 3:12 PM EST

(11-29-2016, Original broadcast 3-23-2016) Today’s Topical Currents discusses how a family somehow functions after catastrophe: a random murder of an adolescent by strangers.

Jonathan Kushner was aged eleven in 1973, his surviving brother, only four. But the survivor is now the acclaimed 47-year-old journalist, David Kushner.

David Kushner has written of the Southwest Florida crime, and how his bereaved family coped.

We hear the story behind the book, ALLIGATOR CANDY.

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