Hello, everybody, and welcome back to the Psych Legal Pop podcast.

This is a podcast where we talk about popular culture through the lens of an attorney and a therapist.

I'm Brooke Brigham. I'm the attorney.

And I'm Tess Brigham. I'm the therapist.

And today we are going to be talking about a new documentary on Netflix called Oklahoma City Bombing, American Terror.

And this is about, of course, the Oklahoma City bombing that took place April 19, 1995 at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. So before we get into the documentary,

I'm going to read a synopsis so we can get an overall look and then we'll dive in deeper.

So on the morning of April 19th, 1995, an ex-army soldier and security guard named Timothy McVey

parked a rented rider truck in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma

City.

He was about to commit mass murder.

Inside, the vehicle was a powerful bomb made out of a deadly cocktail of agricultural fertilizer,

diesel fuel, and other chemicals. McVeigh got out, locked the door, and headed towards his

getaway car. He ignited one timed fuse and then another. At precisely 9.02 a.m., the bomb

exploded. Within moments, the surrounding area looked like a war zone.

A third of the building had been reduced to rubble, with many floors flattened like pancakes.

Dozens of cars were incinerated and more than 300 nearby buildings were damaged or destroyed.

The human toll was still more devastating, 168 souls lost,

including 19 children with several hundred more injured. It was the worst act of homegrown terrorism

in the nation's history. Coming on the heels of the World Trade Center bombings in New York, two years

earlier, the media and many Americans

immediately assumed that the attack was the handiwork of Middle Eastern terrorists.

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