Ramona Africa

At the barricade, WDAS radio news director Barbara Grant heard her name shouted.

Ramona Africa was asking for a meeting with Jerry Africa, civil rights activist Walt Palmer, Barbara herself, and Harvey Clark of Channel 10.

Barbara saw it as a chance to stop the siege.

She rushed to officers with a request, but they shoved her aside.

With Mayor Good's approval and Police Commissioner Gregor Samper's insistence, at exactly 5.28 p.m., Powell dropped the bomb straight onto Move's rooftop bunker.

Following the explosion, fire erupted almost instantly as burning metal fragments pierced a gas can on the roof, igniting gasoline vapors into flame.

Ramona Africa remembered what it was like in the basement when the bomb dropped.

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