061: Jon Hersley and Larry Tongate - Oklahoma City Bombing (Part 1)

FBI Case File Review

Jerri Williams

True Crime, Government

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🗓️ 31 March 2017

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Part one of a two-part episode. Retired agents Jon Hersley and Larry Tongate review their roles as case agents assigned to the nation-wide investigation of the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Jon Hersley was assigned to the Oklahoma City Division. Larry Tongate was in the Bureau's Kansas City Office. They share details about the 168 victims—including 19 children—and the more than 500 people injured from the bombing and the warped ideology that motivated Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols to blow up the Murrah building is also reviewed. The bomb blast also destroyed the entire north side of the nine-story concrete and granite Murrah building, incinerated nearby cars, and damaged more than 300 buildings. The OKBOMB investigation, as it became known, is the United States' deadliest act of homegrown terrorism. In their book—Simple Truths: The Real Story of the Oklahoma City Bombing Investigation—Hersley and Tongate and their co-author Bob Burke, assembled a chronological review of the initial events and of the evidence gathered in the case against McVeigh, Nichols and Fortier.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 61 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams. I'm a retired agent writing crime fiction inspired by true crime FBI cases.
0:16.7	In this episode we get to speak to retired agent John Hersley, who served in the FBI for 30 years, and retired Agent Larry Tungate, who served for 29.
0:28.0	They were case agents and investigators of the April 19th, 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrow Federal Building
0:37.7	in Oklahoma City.
0:39.8	They are interviewed about the fast moving search to identify, capture and charge the persons
0:46.4	responsible for the bombing. John Hersley was assigned to the Oklahoma City Division
0:52.0	at the FBI and Larry Tungate was in the Bureau's
0:55.0	Kansas City office. They tell us what was happening in their respective offices and
1:01.1	leads that were being sent all over the country in those initial days
1:06.4	right after the bombing. A bomb blast that caused the death of 168 innocent people,
1:15.5	including 19 children.
1:19.4	It also destroyed the entire north side of the nine-story concrete and granite
1:25.3	Murrow building, incinerated nearby cars and damaged more than 300
1:31.6	buildings in the area.
1:33.9	The Oak Bomb investigation, as it became known, is the United States' deadliest act of homegrown
1:41.9	terrorism. After being tried and convicted of the crime, Timothy McVeigh
1:47.0	was executed on June 11, 2001, and Terry Nichols was sentenced to life in prison.
1:55.0	A third individual, Michael Fortier, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for failing to report
2:01.7	the planned attack and for lying to the FBI.
2:05.0	In their book, Simple Truths,
2:08.0	The Real Story of the Oklahoma City bombing investigation,
2:12.0	John Herschley Larry Tungate, and their co-author Bob Burke
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