The Move Bombing, 1978 - Today

Spectators watch the fire at the corner of 62nd St. and Larchwood Ave. after The City of Philadlphia dropped a bomb on MOVE headquarters at 6221 Osage Ave. on May 13, 1985.

The corner of 62nd St. and Larchwood Ave. on Feb. 23, 2019, thirty-four years after the MOVE bombing.

10 Builders work to reconstruct the homes that were burnt down during the MOVE bombing on Osage Ave. in Philadelphia, Pa. Dec. 5, 1985.

Osage Ave. on a quiet Saturday afternoon on Feb. 23, 2019 in Philadelphia, Pa.

James Taylor Junior, 53, poses for a photograph on Feb. 23, 2019 on Osage Ave. in Philadelphia, Pa.

James Taylor Junior, 53, has lived on Osage Avenue for most of his life. He was nineteen years old when the bombs were dropped on MOVE headquarters. Taylor and his friends watched as the bombs detonated from a nearby rooftop.

“I watched the bomb go down from a rooftop at the corner of 61st and Osage. When the bomb was dropped it shoock us so hard that some of us fell off.”

Taylor believes no one should live at 6221 Osage Avenue.

“So many people died in that house. How could you live in a house where eleven souls are trapped? I couldn’t.”

Taylor says that there are still many people who live on Osage Avenue today that were there during the bombing.

James Taylor Junior, 53, waves to neighbors on Osage Ave. on Feb. 23, 2019 in Philadelphia, Pa.