A true story of journalistic excellence
It started as an annoyance. It escalated to threats. It ended with eleven people dead including five children and an entire city block burned to the ground. The story of the 1985 MOVE confrontation in West Philadelphia is almost 40 years old but continues to pose questions about a government's responsibility to its people and police power gone awry. Read the true story of the journalists at WCAU-TV who waded knee-deep into a war zone to bring live coverage of this changing story to the people.Â