The Nation - News from May 9, 1986
A Philadelphia grand jury will investigate whether Mayor W. Wilson Goode and other top city officials committed crimes in the police siege that killed 11 members of the radical group MOVE and destroyed 61 homes, Dist. Atty. Ron Castillo said. Police bombed MOVE’s row house last May 13, starting a fire that destroyed 61 homes. Five children and six adults in the MOVE house died. The fire left about 250 people homeless and caused up to $20 million in damage.
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