Summer of 85 - Chris Morrow

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Welcome to the summer of 1985 in Philadelphia, when the city was rockedin almost every sense of the wordby two unprecedented events: Mayor W. Wilson Goodes May 13 decision to bomb the headquarters of MOVE, a controversial Philadelphia-based radical communal organization, and the July 13 Live Aid concert, where international rock royalty convened in Philly to raise money for victims of the Ethiopian famine., Separated by just two months and eight miles, these events would showcase both the best and the worst of the so-called City of Brotherly Love: One would raise millions of dollars for famine victims in Africa, while the other would lead to the death of 11 members of MOVE, (including 5 children), all of whom had taken the last name of their leader, John Africa. The bombing led to a fire that was allowed to burn for hours, resulting in the destruction of a middle-class African American neighborhood. Those wounds remain raw more than 35 years later., Created by Chris Morrow, produced by