
40 years ago, Philadelphia police bombed this Black neighborhood on live TV
07 May 2025
• 36 min
• EN
We're looking back on the day a Philadelphia police department helicopter dropped a bomb on a rowhouse in a middle-class neighborhood. Even though that bombing and the fire it set off killed eleven people and left hundreds homeless, it's been largely forgotten. So how did we collectively memory-hole an event this big? And what does that tell us about race and policing even today? Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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