It was a crime so shocking, so unimaginable that it left much of the country speechless.

Early on the morning of April 1995, a disgruntled US Army vet named Timothy McVeigh, filled with

hatred for minorities and resentment of the country's leaders, set off a massive truck

bomb outside the Alfredi-Morrow Federal Office Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168, injuring

more than 680 others.

19 of the dead were children, most of whom, including four infants, were attending a daycare

center for the federal workers inside the building.

In the days that followed, reporters and editors at Newsweek Magazine were among the first

to notice that this crime, up to that moment, the worst act of domestic terrorism in the

country's history, bore a chilling resemblance to one that was graphically detailed years

earlier in a lured, underground novel called The Turner Diaries, written under a pseudonym

by an eccentric former physics professor and neo-Nazi named William Pierce.

The book had become a near bible for white supremacists and anti-Semites.

It described a race war that tears the country as thunder, triggered by an effort orchestrated

by Jews, of course, to take the guns away from law abiding Americans.

In response, white Christian patriots fight back and set off a truck bomb outside the

FBI building in Washington.

As soon as I heard what happened in Oklahoma City, I just had this gut reaction, one student

of the paramilitary right told Newsweek, it's straight out of the Turner Diaries.

The Newsweek story proved prophetic.

It was soon learned that inside McVeigh's escape car was an envelope containing excerpts

from the Turner Diaries.

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