(Photo by Leif Skoogfors/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images) PHILADELPHIA - The former Philadelphia mayor who led the city 3 1/2 decades ago when police dropped a bomb on a row house and caused an inferno that killed 11 people and destroyed more than 60 homes is calling for a formal apology from the city for the tragedy.
Former mayor W. Wilson Goode Sr. said in an op-ed Sunday in the British newspaper the Guardian that “after 35 years it would be helpful for the healing of all involved, especially the victims of this terrible event.” “Many in the city still feel the pain of that day,” he said. “I know I will always feel the pain.” Goode, the city’s first black mayor, led Philadelphia in 1985 when the city clashed with members of MOVE, a