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The 1985 MOVE bombing, locally known by its date, May 13, 1985, [2] was the bombing and destruction of residential homes in the Cobbs Creek neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, by the Philadelphia Police Department during an armed standoff with MOVE, a black liberation organization. As Philadelphia police attempted to ...
In 1985 Philadelphia was given the sobriquet "The City that Bombed Itself". [46] [47] In 2005 federal judge Clarence Charles Newcomer presided over a civil trial brought by residents seeking damages for having been displaced by the widespread destruction following the 1985 police bombing of MOVE. A jury awarded them a $12.83 million verdict ...
Tiberino's most controversial work was a collaboration with Joseph of a seven-foot relief sculpture depicting their interpretation of the MOVE bombing in 1985, which led to the deaths of five children & six adults in Philadelphia. The sculpture—titled “The MOVE Confrontation,” created in 1986—depicted people engulfed in flames, Mayor W ...
Woodrow Wilson Goode Sr. (born August 19, 1938) is an American politician and former Mayor of Philadelphia and the first African American to hold that office. He served from 1984 to 1992, a period which included the controversial MOVE police action and house bombing in 1985.
Let the Fire Burn is a 2013 documentary film about the events leading up to and surrounding a 1985 stand-off between the black liberation group MOVE and the Philadelphia Police Department. The film is directed and produced by Jason Osder and was released by Zeitgeist Films in October 2013. [1]
Move (Earl Klugh album) or the title song, 1994; Move (Hiromi album) or the title song, 2012; Move (The Move album) or the title song (2007 reissue), 1968; Move (The Original Sins album) or the title song, 1992
The article, which New York Magazine has made available online, was published June 10, 1985 — 18 days before the release of “St. Elmo’s Fire,” one of the most quintessential Brat Pack ...
Confrontation or (Russian: Противостояние, romanized: Protivostoyanie) is a 1985 Soviet six-part television film directed by Semyon Aranovich based on the novel by Yulian Semyonov. Plot [ edit ]