Unabomber Manifesto - Oklahoma City Bombing

The Bombing

On April 19, 1995, around 9:03 a.m., just after parents dropped their children off at day care at the Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, the unthinkable happened.

A massive bomb inside a rental truck exploded, blowing half of the nine-story building into oblivion.

A stunned nation watched as the bodies of men, women, and children were pulled from the rubble for nearly two weeks. When the smoke cleared and the exhausted rescue workers packed up and left, 168 people were dead in the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil.

Just 90 minutes after the explosion, an Oklahoma Highway Patrol officer pulled over 27-year-old Timothy McVeigh for driving without a license plate.

Shortly before he was to be released on April 21, McVeigh was recognized as a bombing suspect and was charged with the bombing.

When McVeigh's ex-Army buddy, Terry Nichols, discovered that he, too, was wanted for questioning, he voluntarily surrendered to police in Herington, Kansas, and was later charged in the bombing.

McVeigh and Nichols are awaiting trial in Denver, Colorado, and could receive the death penalty if convicted of terrorism, murder, and conspiracy charges.

Quicktime Movies

• Overview (1.2M)
• Damage to the Murrah building (608K)
• Rescuing the injured (640K)
• Implosion of the Murrah building (416K)

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Terror in the Heartland

• The worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil - Dec. 30, 1995
• Terror in the Heartland - May 5, 1996

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The Victims

• Dwindling hope: identifying the bodies - April 25, 1995
• Julie Welch will never see her future - April 27, 1995

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The Survivors

• A small victim goes home - July 26, 1995
• OKC Survivor believes she got a second chance - Aug. 5, 1995
• Book commemorates OKC bombing - Aug. 11, 1995
• Surgery offers hope to mother - Aug. 23, 1996
• Man who snapped tragic photo fired - Sept. 13, 1995
• Youngest victim of Oklahoma bombing - Nov. 22, 1995

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The Rescue

• The limits of hope in Oklahoma City - April 23, 1995
• Search stress also hard on dogs - Apr. 28, 1995
• OKC rescue winds down - May 2, 1995
• Search for bombing survivors ends - May 5, 1995
• Firefighter details experiences in book - June 26, 1995

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Recovery

• Time to heal - May 4, 1995
• Murrah building to be imploded - May 9, 1995
• Bringing down the Murrah Federal Building - May 16, 1995
• Federal Building Demolition - May 23, 1995
• Bombing survivors start healing - June 30, 1995
• Healing ceremony on July 4th - July 4, 1995
• Federal building workers return to work - Aug. 10, 1995
• Bombing still vivid in memories - October 19, 1995

Source - CNN