Antron McCray

Kevin Richardson

Yusef Salaam

Raymond Santana

Kharey Wise

Matias Reyes

Jim Dwyer

Angela Black

Ed Koch

Craig Steven Wilder

LynNell Hancock

Calvin O. Butts III

Raymond Santana Sr.

Michael Warren

Natalie Byfield

Saul Kassin

Michael Joseph

David Dinkins

Ronald Gold

Humberto Arroyo

Bobby Burns

Robert Colangelo

Mario Cuomo

Howard Diller

Linda Fairstein

Rudolph Giuliani

Bernard Goetz

Carlos Gonzalez

John Gotti

John Hartigan

Elizabeth Lederer

Jack Maple

Bobby McCray

Linda McCray

Colin Moore

Robert Morgenthau

Paul L. Richardson

Peter Rivera

Aaron Rosenthal

Sharonne Salaam

Al Sharpton

Mike Sheehan

Donald Trump

Ben Ward

Sarah Burns

Ken Burns

David McMahon

Doug Wamble

In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were arrested and later convicted of raping a white woman in New York City's Central Park. They spent between 6 and 13 years in prison before a serial rapist confessed that he alone had committed the crime, leading to their convictions being overturned. Set against a backdrop of a decaying city beset by violence and racial tension, this is the story of that horrific crime, the rush to judgment by the police, a media clamoring for sensational stories and an outraged public, and the five lives upended by this miscarriage of justice.