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THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING: WHO IS TO BLAME

The Alarmist

The Alarmist

Comedy, History, Society & Culture

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This week, The Alarmist (Rebecca Delgado Smith) decides who is to blame for the Oklahoma City Bombing. She is joined by History of the 90s host, Kathy Kenzora, Fact Checker Chris Smith and Producer Amanda Lund. They discuss the connections between the Oklahoma Bombing, Ruby Ridge and Waco and the difference between Doomsday Preppers and Survivalists. They speak with Guest Expert Dr. Kathleen Belew (Assistant Professor of History at Chicago University and author of Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America) about the connection between this tragedy and the Gulf War. On the board this week: White Supremacy, Timothy McVeigh, and Those Who Didn’t Tattle. 


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0:00.0

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10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the brain again.

0:15.0

Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app.

0:20.0

An Eriio's Original.

0:25.0

I was born with a special gift.

0:29.0

The ability to mentally transform any situation

0:32.0

into the worst case scenario in my own brain.

0:40.1

My therapist calls my gift catastrophizing.

0:43.8

And that's why I'm uniquely qualified to scrutinize and analyze history's greatest

0:49.0

disasters and find out who's to blame.

0:55.0

They say history repeats itself.

0:58.0

Not on my watch.

0:59.0

My name is Rebecca Delgado Smith,

1:02.0

and I am The Alarmist.

1:05.0

Hey everyone, thanks for tuning into The Alarmist, a comedy podcast where we talk

1:15.5

about history's greatest tragedies and figure out who's to blame. Today we'll be

1:20.3

discussing the Oklahoma City bombing.

1:23.4

Here's what you need to know.

1:26.6

On the morning of April 19, 1995, an ex-army soldier and security guard named Timothy

1:32.4

McVeigh drove to the Alfred P. Murrah Federal

1:35.9

Building in downtown Oklahoma City.

1:39.6

Inside the rented rider truck that he drove was a homemade bomb made out of agricultural

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