The Daily History Chronicle

On May 13, 1985, Philadelphia police dropped a military bomb on a residential neighborhood, killing eleven people, including five children, and destroying sixty-one homes. The man who authorized it was Wilson Goode, the city's first Black mayor. This episode of The Daily History Chronicle examines the full, unresolved complexity of what happened on Osage Avenue: the documented danger MOVE posed to its neighbors, the catastrophic failure of the city's response, the decades of inadequate accountability that followed, and the questions about state power and community safety that have never been fully answered.