Local Artist Calls Out Rigged Conviction After 1988 Explosion Killed Firefighters

Sorry . . . We have to agree with artists inasmuch as just about every person who reads the news knows that this prosecution was more about vengeance than justice.

Here's a glimpse at the open secret and continued advocacy . . .

The former Charlotte Street resident and National Endowment for the Arts fellow is working on a new art project called “Closure Is Not Justice.”

“The hope is that we collect stories out of this, and collect public memory," Johnson says. "But the impact is to be a little startling."

Startling because Johnson has created a series of "wanted" billboards featuring a tips hotline number to gather memories from the night of the explosion.

"This is a wanted poster, but it's for a crime that happened 30 years ago,” he says.

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Public art project challenges convictions in 1988 explosion that killed 6 Kansas City firefighters

New digital billboards that look like "wanted" posters have been popping up around Kansas City. They're the work of a Kansas City writer exploring public memories of the 1988 South Kansas City explosion that killed six firefighters.