MOVE Bombing @40
This two-part series about the horrific MOVE bombing that rocked the City of Brotherly Love 40 years ago is reported by WHYY News reporter Tom MacDonald. The police standoff ended with a bomb dropped, 61 families displaced and 11 lives lost, including five children.
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Episode 2: The city that bombed itself
The shocking end to a contentious standoff between police and MOVE, a controversial back-to-nature group, resulted in an aerial bomb drop ...
Air Date: May 21, 2025
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Episode 1: You don’t have to drop a bomb
Forty years ago, the City of Philadelphia used a helicopter to drop a satchel bomb the size of a backpack on a group of residents. For th ...
Air Date: May 21, 2025
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