He Witnessed A Rape In 1969. He's Finally Ready To Talk About It
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Don Palmerine, who witnessed a rape as a teenager. After keeping silent for 50 years, he wrote about it in The Washington Post.
"I was both an observer and a participant in a teenage rape."
That sobering confession is how Don Palmerine began to tell his story publicly for the first time, at age 67, in a Washington Post essay published earlier this month about the part he played in a sexual assault.
Palmerine was a 17-year-old high school student when he attended a party, and according to his account, watched through a window as a young man raped a young woman. That was in 1969. As he described the incident in the Post:
At one point, a boy
