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	Podcast:		Code Switch
	Episode:		40 years ago, Philadelphia police bombed this Black neighborhood on live TV
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:36:20
	Publish Date:		2025-05-07 07:00:59
	Description:		We're looking back on the day a Philadelphia police department helicopter dropped a bomb on a rowhouse in a middle-class neighborhood. Even though that bombing and the fire it set off killed eleven people and left hundreds homeless, it's been largely forgotten. So how did we collectively memory-hole an event this big? And what does that tell us about race and policing even today? Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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