Oklahoma City Bombed: 168 Killed in America's Worst Domestic Attack
A truck bomb detonates outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people and shattering the city's sense of safety. That same day, convicted murderer Richard Wayne Snell dies in the electric chair in Arkansas, his execution occurring just hours after the bombing despite his known ties to suspect Timothy McVeigh.
April 19, 1995
31 years ago
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