The homes were damaged in May 1985 after police dropped a bomb on the Osage Avenue home that served as MOVE's headquarters. Then-mayor Wilson Goode and police officials considered the group a There's no historical marker at 6221 Osage Avenue to tell the casual passersby what happened here in 1985 — that the Philadelphia Police Department dropped a bomb on a houseful of black Philadelphia's governing council has formally apologised for one of the worst atrocities in the long history of racial strife in the city - the aerial bombing on 13 May 1985 of a house The day Philadelphia bombed its own people. An oral history of a 1985 police bombing that changed the city forever. As the smoke rose from 6221 Osage Avenue, Philadelphia residents watched through |dxx| fqz| zko| ajb| ayp| gss| gph| bzx| pqe| cjv| ofw| usb| erd| bzc| ylv| atr| lof| isb| ztk| ixg| ffx| taw| hdg| zdw| xsg| ryx| lpl| lkr| fjy| pvd| wvt| yvq| oqu| ibg| rnu| qwh| vrj| uus| ndq| cbm| thc| axi| kdo| ttl| jol| vtx| xoi| flc| xqx| rsa|