MOVE: Untangling the Tragedy

The Bomb


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Former Philadelphia Daily News reporter Linn Washington takes us through his memories of May 13th, 1985, as police use everything in their arsenal to remove MOVE from their Philadelphia headquarters. The attempted eviction culminates in the dropping of a bomb on MOVE’s rowhouse, sparking a fire that killed 11 MOVE members — five of them children — and destroyed 61 homes in Philadelphia.
MOVE: Untangling the Tragedy is a production of Temple University Klein College's Logan Center for Urban Investigative Reporting and The Philadelphia Inquirer.Sound design, scoring, mixing and mastering by Rowhome Productions.Check out new and archival stories about Move on The Philadelphia Inquirer website.

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MOVE: Untangling the TragedyBy Temple University and The Philadelphia Inquirer

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