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0:00.0 | So you're, I would say, one of the living experts on the Oklahoma City bombing, which to some of us seems like just the other day, but it was 30 years ago this year. |
0:09.5 | So for those not steeped in the details of the story, if you wouldn't mind giving us the overview, what was the Oklahoma City bombing? |
0:16.1 | Sure. |
0:17.8 | The Oklahoma City bombing was and is America's deadliest domestic terror attack. |
0:28.5 | It happened on a Wednesday morning in 1995, an April morning, out of nowhere, nine in the morning at the federal building, the Alfred |
0:41.5 | P. Murah federal building, nine stories tall, a devastating explosion hit the building and killed 168 people who were working or visiting the building that morning. |
1:03.1 | The front of the building looked like ice cream that had been scooped out. |
1:09.3 | It was just a scene of unbelievable destruction and death |
1:15.8 | and blood and confusion. And the entire nation was left just aghast that this could have happened |
1:25.0 | in America's heartland. It was shocking, and there was confusion. |
1:51.5 | I remember that morning well in April, |
1:54.2 | and people immediately went on CNN to say that Muslims had done it. |
1:59.4 | That was the first understanding |
2:01.5 | was this was some kind of Islamic terror attack. |
2:05.5 | And then we were told that, no, it was really one guy with an accomplice who wasn't there. |
2:12.7 | The guy was called Timothy McVeigh. |
2:14.2 | He had a rider truck full of ammonium nitrate fertilizer mixed with |
2:19.7 | diesel fuel, I think. Yes. And that's when most of us learned that that mixture could |
2:26.3 | produce an explosion like this. Now that's, I think, well known, but that's when most of us learned |
2:31.3 | it. And he was a white supremacist. He was mad at the government. |
2:35.2 | He was mad about Waco and Ruby Ridge. |
2:38.1 | And he's a former, he was a veteran. |
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