Pearls from the pilgrimage of Rev. David Wilkerson to New York, as described in the book ‘The Cross and the Switchblade’

David Wilkerson was reading Life magazine one night in 1958 when he came across a story about seven teenage hooligans who attacked and killed a fifteen-year-old polio victim named Michael Farmer. Motivated by this, he decided to make a pilgrimage to New York from Pittsburgh by car.