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Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

86: The MOVE Bombing

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Ghost Town

Social Sciences, History, True Crime, Science

3.7938 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

On May 13th, 1985, the city of Philadelphia dropped a bomb on one of its own neighborhoods during a standoff with MOVE.

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0:00.0

On BBC A

0:02.0

I am doing life a few more years means nothing to me

0:06.0

I'm pregnant

0:08.0

judges go easy I'm pregnant women

0:10.0

I've been all my electricity that's all don't think I should even be in here.

0:14.0

A new series of the Baffa Award winning time.

0:18.0

You tell anyone and I mean anyone about me I will kill you starring Jody Whitaker tomorrow Lawrence and

0:26.0

Bella Ramsey time watch on BBC I player the city that bombed itself I'm Rebecca Rebecca Lee. I'm Jason Horton. And this is Ghost Town. It's by.27 PM. State police helicopter.

0:57.0

There is the explosion.

0:59.0

What you're looking at now is a live picture of the water cannons pouring high-pressure

1:06.6

streams of water onto the city of Philadelphia dropped a bomb on itself.

1:26.2

And this is the story of the move bombing.

1:30.6

And I know I brought this up to you.

1:32.0

You have, you before. You have.

1:33.0

This has been a long time coming.

1:35.0

I've kind of been sitting on this for a while and it actually became part of the first episode of Strange

1:39.5

Year and for 1985, but this is going to be a little bit of a bigger conversation.

1:46.8

There's been new news in it, so I thought this is a really good time to do it and it was just something I was I don't know just sitting on it for a while because I when I found out about it for my brother Tim he lives in Philadelphia

2:02.0

Timothy Horton.

2:03.0

Nope.

2:04.0

No.

2:05.0

No.

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