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The terrorists are still alive.

I thought the State Police dropped the bomb? I lived in Philly then. MOVE was not compatible with urban life and the children lived in squalor. They were well armed. The bomb was dumb AF, but MOVE resisted the city looking in on the kids. Their lack of cooperation lead to this and prior standoffs.

Hmm I wonder why move was skeptical of city officials...

Look up James Ramp.

Police did what Police do - escalate. But MOVE was not a Black Liberation movement. Or an environmental group.

I lived in Philly then too. I am NOT condoning what the police did, but I am still haunted by hearing the testimony of Michael Ward, the child who survived. He was 12 or 13 but they thought he was about 8 because he was so undernourished. He was illiterate and had no idea of time or dates.

It was Philly cops dropping C4 from a State Police helicopter

That makes a lot of sense. If the city wasn't allowed to see the children the only thing left to do was to kill the children. Who the accepts something like that?

Actually during a prior attempt they killed a cop. MOVE was not a liberation movement or back to earth collective. I despise the cops but hold no sympathy for MOVE.

Almost 500 police fired over 10,000 rounds of ammunition into the house while other officers blew holes in the walls with explosives. The police commissioner then ordered the house to be bombed, which they did using an improvised device made from C4 given to them by the FBI.

Only two people survived the blast and ensuing fire: Ramona Africa, and Michael Ward, aged 13. While no officials were prosecuted, Ramona Africa was subsequently jailed for seven years on riot and conspiracy charges.

The incident occurred during the tenure of Philadelphia's first Black mayor, a Democrat named Wilson Goode. The children killed were named Katricia Dotson (Tree), Netta, Delitia, Phil, and Tomasa Africa and the adults were Rhonda, Teresa, Frank, CP, Conrad, and John Africa.