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The Oklahoma City Bombing: 1995

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9:02 AM, April 19, 1995. Two years to the day after Waco. The Ryder truck at the north entrance. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. The Elohim City connection. The children in the day care. 168 dead including nineteen kids. The largest domestic terrorist attack until 9/11. McVeigh's calm 2001 execution. The rise of anti-government extremism. The story before every mass shooting since. — a daily series with new episodes every day.

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Waco's Shadow: The Date, the Truck, and 168 Dead
At 9:02 AM on April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a fertilizer bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injuring more than 600 others. Nineteen of the dead were children. Fifteen of them were in...
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Nineteen Children, One Truck, One Date: The Anatomy of the Bombing
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The Government That Cleared Itself: Waco, Elohim City, and McVeigh's Logic
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168 Dead, Nineteen Children: The Morning McVeigh Chose to Be Understood
At 9:02 AM on April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh parked a Ryder truck packed with five thousand pounds of ammonium nitrate and nitromethane at the north entrance of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The explosion sheared away the...
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Waco to Oklahoma City: The Ideology That Built the Bomb
At 9:02 AM on April 19, 1995, a Ryder truck parked outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building detonated, collapsing nine floors and killing 168 people — nineteen of them toddlers and infants from a second-floor daycare. But the Oklahoma City...
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