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Aug 31, 2015 · Brentin Mock: Show Me a Hero ended with the suicide of Nick Wasicsko, the dethroned figure who helped usher the city toward court-ordered housing desegregation. But before his suicide were...
Nov 8, 2022 · Three months after Nick was found dead from an apparent suicide in 1993, his widow, Nay, established a fund in the Westchester Community Foundation to honor his memory and values. The Nicholas C. Wasicsko Scholarship Fund provides scholarships for college-bound Yonkers residents interested in government, law and/or law enforcement.
Sep 3, 2015 · If you haven't finished watching and haven't read the book and the news accounts, this is a major spoiler: "Show Me a Hero" concludes with Wasicsko committing suicide. It’s a tragic ending...
Aug 6, 2015 · The drama, based on Lisa Belkin’s 1999 nonfiction book of the same name, shadows former Yonkers mayor Nick Wasicsko – played by Oscar Isaac – and the political and public backlash to a...
Nov 21, 1993 · THE aftermath of the suicide of former Yonkers mayor Nicholas C. Wasicsko had an eerily familiar ring to it. The 34-year-old Mr. Wasicsko shot himself the week before Election Day, three months...
Aug 28, 2015 · It’s the story of young Yonkers Mayor Nick Wasicsko (Oscar Isaac), the (white) denizens and politicians who fight the NAACP-sided ruling tooth and nail, and the Yonkers residents (primarily...
Jan 1, 2001 · The hero named in the title is Nicholas Wasicskso, at 28 the youngest mayor in the US, and at 30, dead by his own hand, driven to suicide by his paranoia and hopelessness about political events spun out of control, and his own failed political ambitions.
