The Only American City Fire-Bombed From the Air
By the time Lt. Frank Powell hurled a satchel bomb onto the roof of a three-story row house on Philadelphia’s Osage Avenue, the siege had gone on for nearly twelve hours. Powell was a member of the Philadelphia PD’s bomb squad, and like the “firemen” in Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novelette, he was performing a function assumed to be the opposite of his expected role: Rather than disposing of a military-grade bomb, he was using it as a weapon of mass destruction. The building targeted by Powell was occupied by members of a militant group called The MOVE. Aerial photographs taken … Continue reading The Only American City Fire-Bombed From the Air
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