Making Contact 5/14

Description:
Our radio adaptation of the film, Let the Fire Burn explores the controversial, 1985 clash between police in Philadelphia and MOVE, a radical, non-violent, back-to-nature group. After a standoff with the group MOVE, Philadelphia Police dropped a bomb on the roof of MOVE’s home, killing 11 people including five children, and destroying approximately 61 homes. Thirty-five years later, Philadelphia is still known as “The City that Bombed Itself.” The citys brutal show force, unjustified to many, exists as part of a decades-long tradition of violent policing aimed at African-Americans.
Featuring:
13 year-old Birdie Africa, later known as Michael Moses Ward, Ramona Africa, Mayor Wilson Goode Sr., the Philadelphia police commissioner Gregore J. Sambor, Tony Eastley, LaVerne Sims, Bennie Swans, crisis negotiator, Clifford Bond, Janice Walker, Cassandra Carter ” neighbor, Sgt. Albert Revel, Louise James, William Brown III, Rev. Paul Washington, officers: Markus Bariana, Donald R. Griffiths, William J. Trudell, Lawrence D’Ulisse and Officer James Berghaier

Fire Commissioner William Richmond, District Attorney Ed Rendell and the Philadelphia Special Investigation Commission hearings.

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