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00:00May 13, 1985, years of conflict between the city of Philadelphia and a small urban group
00:08known as MOVE ended in a violent day-long encounter. It was one of the most devastating
00:13days in the modern history of this city. The big stories tonight is the effort to evict
00:20MOVE. The effort has turned into a disaster. Can you describe the philosophy of MOVE?
00:28We were being taught about the corruption in this system. The system, the establishment, you.
00:33Did you consider the MOVE organization to be a terrorist group? People who threaten to shoot
00:37and kill neighbors, police. I think that's a pretty adequate description of the word terrorist.
00:42Where is it written that we could not have a religion of our own? This system had one
00:47intention, to either kill MOVE people or to put us in prison as long as possible. It's just that simple.
00:53More than three dozen Philadelphia policemen surrounded the building after a MOVE member
00:57was spotted on the roof wearing a hooded mask and carrying a shotgun.
01:01We intend to seize control of the house. We will do it by any means necessary.
01:06Every one of us knew that someone was going to die.
01:09Did you have a concern that the people inside that house might be in physical danger?
01:14Excuse me.
01:15To ask me what were we concerned is complete insanity.
01:22There has just been a huge explosion here. We don't know what it means, but it just shook
01:27the whole place. It was a huge blast.
01:35Did it ever occur to you that this might have been a dangerous device?
01:39Yes, ma'am.
01:44The fire got real heavy because we couldn't breathe. Then that's when we started yelling.
01:49What did you say? What did you yell?
01:51We want to come out.
01:52There's no one that I know in city government that would intentionally go out there to burn
02:03those people to death. There's no one that I know of could do that.
02:09I remember as soon as I scooped them up, he said to me, don't shoot me, don't shoot me.