I was in Philly that day and watched the city burn. Most people I tell about it have no idea what I’m talking about.
Good old Mayor Rizzo.
Mumia Abu Jamal gained fame because he got close to MOVE and covered them from the inside as a reporter for WHYY, the Philadelphia NPR station.
The only child survivor - “Birdie Africa” - accidentally died in a hot tub on a cruise ship nearly a decade ago.
Ramona “Africa” isn’t going to be around too much longer: https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/ramona-africa-move-survivor-city-bombing-osage-1985-20180821.html
By the way, one of the members of MOVE was a white woman.
I was there on the street in 85 as a sophomore at lower merino high school
I loved close to overbrook and Osage ave was walkable
One Wilson Goode , mayor , dropped that bomb and let the whole block burn to the ground killing most of the “ family “
Firefighters were told to stand down so as not to get shot
one of the more surreal things I’ve ever seen in my adult life - the other was the 1991 Oakland firestorm where I was there on bike long before firefighters and road closures
if Wilson good was not a black mayor , Dropping that bomb on all those black people and burning them to death,there would’ve been riots in the street every day for months
but the fact that he was black meant it just all get swept under the rug like
“ oh well ! the mayor dropped a bomb on a city block burned to the ground and killed a bunch of people A la David koresh
Wilson Goode was no good.
That MOVE bombing was a disaster.