tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671297494867817437.post8694851321195372358..comments2023-06-12T03:30:46.089-04:00Comments on DRINKING OF ELDER MEN: End of DaysUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671297494867817437.post-80834505871105738422010-04-08T07:19:49.032-04:002010-04-08T07:19:49.032-04:00Here is an email comment I received from Greg who ...Here is an email comment I received from Greg who has the “Jesus is Wonderful” Blog at http://www.jesusiswonderful.com/<br><br>Hey, Larry! Thanks for e-mailing out your posts, as I'm too busy right now to keep up otherwise. "Psychedelphia", huh? You know, I hope this comes out sounding the right way, but I think the Lord knew you two were not ready for children, yet. I am so glad you found Jesus and raised your kids in His light. Your friend is right: you NEED to write a book. Might want to provide a warning about that bathroom, though! Yikes!! And I'll try to not have nightmares about the bulging wall panel. We had cute little mice in my parents' appartment one year, and that's more than enough for me! :)<br><br>GregLarry, aka The Kid & The Old Goathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03968271056094267260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671297494867817437.post-27035220510602145772010-04-08T19:50:52.672-04:002010-04-08T19:50:52.672-04:00Larry,I read with great interest your latest insta...Larry,<br><br>I read with great interest your latest installment of your early years in Philadelphia. As you know Bill and I were in Philadelphia around the same time. Interesting isn't it, how much our lives paralleled? <br><br>One small correction in your story of Powelltown and MOVE. I believe Wilson Goode was the mayor who made the move against MOVE. Frank Rizzo wasn't responsible for that disaster (the first bombing of am American city.)<br><br>I am eagerly looking forward to the next chapter of your very interesting life!.<br><br>RonRon Tiptonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11161930319264523497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671297494867817437.post-46401761345216799132010-04-08T20:44:41.213-04:002010-04-08T20:44:41.213-04:00Ron,Questioning me on history? Tsk tsk.You are par...Ron,<br><br>Questioning me on history? Tsk tsk.<br><br>You are partially right, Mayor Wilson Goode ordered the attack which resulted in the bombing of MOVE. It was a four pound mixture of C-4 Plastic explosive and Tovex, by the way. This occurred in May of 1985 after police had responded to neighborhood complaints of constant bullhorn harangues and filthy litter around the house. <br><br>However, this was after MOVE had relocated out of Powelton Village to 6221 Osage Avenue.<br><br> John Africa, MOVE's founder and 10 others, five adults and five children , were killed in the bombing and the resulting fire destroyed the whole city block. The bombing occurred after a standoff in which police lobbed in tear gas while the fire department blasted the house with two water cannons. There was a 90 minute shootout before the bomb was used involving the police emptying thousands of rounds into the house.<br><br>So the bombing by Wilson Goode is correct.<br><br>However, prior to that when MOVE was founded in 1972 it established a commune in Powelton. They staged the same type of prolonged bullhorn harangues there as they did later on Osage. They filled the backyard of the Powelton Compound with garbage and human waste, which attracted rats and armies of cockroaches, and MOVE protected these vermin because they considered it wrong to kill them.<br><br>Obviously neighbors weren't happy with the situation and eventually the Police began to watch the Compound closely.<br><br>The Police under the command of then Mayor Rizzo basically engaged in a year-long standoff with MOVE after a vacate order had been issued and MOVE refused to relocate from Powelton. When police finally attempted to enter the Compound and physically evacuate the cult, Officer James Ramp was killed in the ensuing shootout. In all seven policemen, five firefighters, three MOVE members and three neighborhood people were killed and nine MOVE members went to prison.<br><br>(It was rumored during the 1970s that Rizzo had bought a tank and planned to use it to blast down the Powelton Village compound.)<br><br>As a result of the 1978 shootout, MOVE did move out of Powelton to the Osage Avenue house and then Goode got into the act in his reckless, foolish way.<br><br>I was walking regularly through Powelton in that 1970s period.<br><br>LarLarry, aka The Kid & The Old Goathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03968271056094267260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671297494867817437.post-67331521947062373222010-04-08T21:11:59.254-04:002010-04-08T21:11:59.254-04:00Ron,So I am clear. The rumor of Rizzo's tank b...Ron,<br><br>So I am clear. The rumor of Rizzo's tank began in the late 1960s and was allegedly for purposes of putting down the Civil Rights movement. It was continued into the early seventies that he had such a tank and would order it used in Powelton.<br><br>My ventures through there were in the early seventies, not at the time of the police siege or shootout in 1978. The bank moved downtown before MOVE became a problem in Powelton, but it was already a hot bed of controversy before MOVE really made things bad.<br><br>I had begun writing in the "Underground Press" in 1968, (under a pen name), which is when the "Rizzo Tank" page I showed in the post was appearing.<br><br>I was introduced to the editor of Psychedelphia Period by a close friend named Jane. Her boyfriend was a photographer for the Underground and both were Black Activists. Her boyfriend eventually renounced his U. S. citizenship and went to Cuba. <br><br>These were the kind of associations I had in those days. I didn't vote for Nixon or Humphrey (and certainly not Wallace) in the 1968 Presidential election. I did a write-in for Dick Gregory of the Peace and Freedom Party.<br><br>In 1972, I voted for Benjamin Spock of the People's Party.<br><br>(I was registered Democratic in those days, but I was voting third party in the Presidential races.)<br><br>LarLarry, aka The Kid & The Old Goathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03968271056094267260noreply@blogger.com