Oklahoma City Bombed: America's Deadliest Domestic Terror
Timothy McVeigh parked a rented Ryder truck loaded with 4,800 pounds of ammonium nitrate and nitromethane fuel outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City at 9:02 AM on April 19, 1995. The blast killed 168 people, including 19 children in a second-floor daycare center, and injured over 680. McVeigh, a Gulf War veteran radicalized by the Ruby Ridge and Waco sieges, timed the bombing to the second anniversary of the Waco fire. He was arrested 90 minutes later during a routine traffic stop because his car had no license plate. The bombing remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in US history. It prompted the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 and increased security at federal buildings nationwide.
April 19, 1995
31 years ago
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