Selects: MOVE: Or When the Philly Police Dropped a Bomb on a Residential Neighborhood

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🗓️ 23 March 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Believe it or not, in 1985 the Philadelphia Police Department dropped a bomb from a helicopter onto a residential building in an African-American neighborhood. The fact that this story isn't more widely known says it all. Listen and learn about MOVE in this classic episode.

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0:59.6	Hey everyone, it's Josh here and for this week's select I've chosen our July 2019
1:06.4	episode on the Move bombing. It's a very disturbing little-known event in
1:11.0	American history when the Philadelphia Police
1:13.5	Department dropped a fire bomb onto a row home where a radical group was
1:17.8	hold up about half of whom were children. It ended as anyone would expect in terrible tragedy. I hope you get a lot out of this
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