Introducing Homegrown OKC

Alphabet Boys

iHeartPodcasts and Western Sound

Society & Culture, Government, True Crime

4.6 • 968 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Homegrown OKC is a new podcast from NBC Universal, Esmail Corp., and Western Sound. It's a podcast adaptation of Jeffrey Toobin's book, Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism. The podcast chronicles the political, historical and media-personality influences that radicalized McVeigh resulting in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. It then looks at the legacy of the bombing and how it's catalyzed the growth of Right Wing extremism in the United States.

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0:00.0	The Oklahoma City bombing seemed to come out of nowhere and then America found out who did it.
0:12.0	Timothy McVeigh. He had lost everything and laid the blame on the
0:17.4	federal government. He decides to avenge the death of water to him ordinary citizens.
0:23.7	The vastness of the crime scene was unprecedented.
0:27.7	I covered McVeigh's trial back in 1997,
0:31.3	and like much of the news media I focused on the crime. What I didn't see then
0:36.7	was that this story transcended crime, even terrorism and it told us something about our
0:42.4	politics.
0:44.0	Back then we talked a lot about how the bombing happened.
0:48.0	What we didn't talk about as much was why.
0:51.0	McVeigh's politics were almost an afterthought, but the why is important.
0:56.8	McVeigh himself said that the bombing was part of his duty as an American patriot. And all of that is not ancient history.
1:07.0	We have a breach of the capital.
1:10.0	January 6, 2021, another day of extremist violence in America.
1:17.0	What struck me is that the Oklahoma City bombing and January 6th were both born out of the same motives.
1:26.2	The obsession with gun rights, the perceived approval of the founding fathers
1:34.0	the belief in the value and legitimacy of violence.
1:44.3	To understand the present, I've returned to the Oklahoma City bombing to uncover the full truth
1:50.0	about what happened.
1:51.9	And once you hear what I've discovered, you'll see that the
1:54.7	motivations for right-wing violence that we're seeing today actually started decades
1:59.9	earlier. I'm Jeffrey Tuben. From USG Audio, Smail Corp and Western Sound comes a new series,
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