MOVE – 25 years on

On 13 May 1985, Lieutenant Frank Powell, then chief of Philadelphia’s bomb-disposal unit, lit the fuse to a C-4 and Tovex bomb and dropped the satchel from a state police helicopter onto the roof of MOVE’s Osage Avenue home.

NPR is acknowledging 25 years gone by since this hideous event with a piece by Elizabeth Fiedler, “MOVE Fire Burdens Neighborhood, After 25 Years.” Beneath Fielder’s byline is a link to WHYY where a piece by Susan Phillips, “Out of the rubble, MOVE still remains“, is featured in the “More News” section.

In my opinion, both pieces are misleadingly feeble attempts to whitewash the state’s “ill-conceived” act of terror.