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MOVE Bombing at 40
A two-episode podcast by WHYY News explores the exclusive story of a helicopter pilot who warned the city that “the bunker’s ...
Metro Philadelphia3d
History column: Remembering the MOVE bombing 40 years later
On May 13, 1985, a bomb dropped by police ignited a blaze that would consume 61 homes, kill 11 people, and leave a ...
US Navy electronics technician makes bomb threat at San Diego International Airport | 10 p.m. update
Cellphone video shows 35-year-old John Stea, an electronics technician with the U.S. Navy, being escorted out of the Hawaiian Airlines flight on Tuesday.
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U.S. lawmakers move urgently to recognize survivors of the first atomic bomb test
The 1945 Trinity test produced heat 10,000 times greater than the surface of the sun and spread fallout across the country. Tina Cordova and her mother, Rosalie, relax at Bonito Lake, New Mexico ...
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The largely forgotten history of Philadelphia’s police bombing of Black organization MOVE
This week marked the 40th anniversary of one of the worst tragedies in Philadelphia’s history. In May 1985, the city’s police ...
The Source9d
The Source Magazine Remembers The MOVE 9 Bombing 40 Years Later
In the aftermath, nine MOVE members—Chuck, Debbie, Delbert, Eddie, Janet, Janine, Merle, Mike, and Phil Afrika—were convicted and sentenced to lengthy prison terms as the MOVE 9. Tensions with law ...
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The Philadelphia Citizen9dOpinion
The Fires Still Burn
Forty years after the City bombed a house, killed 11 MOVE members and destroyed a neighborhood, Philadelphia still has not reckoned with it ...
Billy Penn9d
The kids behind a MOVE bombing historical marker; Philly influencers; Weekly gun violence brief | Morning roundup
The historical marker for the MOVE bombing was the work of middle schoolers. Here’s their story … As Philly works to ...
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Police Oversight Commission hosts conversation in Philadelphia on MOVE bombing 40 years later
On the eve of the MOVE bombing in West Philadelphia, people gathered for a powerful message inside a Center City theater.
Four decades after MOVE, Philadelphia still struggles to learn lessons that led it to become the city that bombed itself | Editorial
Actions by the city before, during, and after May 13, 1985, still loom large. In fact, one could argue MOVE is a microcosm ...
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1985 MOVE bombing to be remembered as Philadelphia City Council calls for "reflection" 40 years later
May 13, 2025, will mark 40 years to the day after the MOVE bombing, when the Philadelphia Police Department dropped a bomb on the headquarters of the Black liberation, back-to-nature group's Osage ...
London Evening Standard15d
‘Emotional’ outpouring from Ukraine after death of British bomb disposal expert
The death of a British bomb disposal expert who was ... “We will continue his legacy,” he said. “We will continue to move forward. We’re going to have to restrict part of it because ...