Let the Fire Burn plot
On May 13, 1985, the Philadelphia Police Department dropped two kilograms of military explosives on a row house inhabited by the radical group MOVE. The resulting fire is not fought for an hour, although firefighters were on site with water cannons. Five children and six adults are killed and 61 homes destroyed in the eruption, one of the largest in the city's history. This dramatic event unfolds through an extraordinary visual record that has always been withheld from the public. It shows a graphic illustration of how prejudice, bigotry and fear can lead to unthinkable acts of violence.