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I lived in West Philly when this happened. I could see the fires and smoke from my bedroom window. Sometimes I try to tell people about it and they don't believe me.
But yes, the then-Commissioner of Police of Philadelphia culminated a long series of mistakes by ordering a bomb dropped on a rowhouse. The resulting fire engulfed whole city blocks.
Because everything ends up on the Web eventually, there's now a Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE
And that led me to a retrospective site put together by the Philadelphia Inquirer for the 20th anniversary of the disaster: http://www.religionnewsblog.com/11182/the-move-disaster-may-13-1985
I wonder how much of the story this movie will actually tell.
I lived in West Philly when this happened. I could see the fires and smoke from my bedroom window. Sometimes I try to tell people about it and they don't believe me.
But yes, the then-Commissioner of Police of Philadelphia culminated a long series of mistakes by ordering a bomb dropped on a rowhouse. The resulting fire engulfed whole city blocks.
Because everything ends up on the Web eventually, there's now a Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE
And that led me to a retrospective site put together by the Philadelphia Inquirer for the 20th anniversary of the disaster: http://www.religionnewsblog.com/11182/the-move-disaster-may-13-1985
I wonder how much of the story this movie will actually tell.
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Date: 2013-09-24 06:57 am (UTC)