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By Miriam Velasquez | mvelasquez@scng.com | Daily News
PUBLISHED: April 18, 2017 at 10:49 am | UPDATED: April 18, 2017 at 3:49 pm
A cargo truck laden with more than two tons of explosives was detonated in front of Oklahoma Citys nine-story federal building on April 19, 1995 an act of terrorism that at the time was the worst such attack ever committed on U.S. soil. The blast killed 168 people, including 19 children, injured hundreds more and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to structures and vehicles in the downtown area.
Within days, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were arrested and accused of conspiring to destroy the federal building in retribution for the governments handling of the siege of the Branch Davidian religious group at their compound in Waco, Texas, two years earlier. McVeigh and Nichols were tried and convicted on federal charges, and Nichols was convicted of murder following a separate trial in Oklahoma. McVeigh was sentenced to death and executed and Nichols received multiple life prison sentences.
Posted: Apr 18, 2017 10:36 AM EDT Updated: Apr 18, 2017 11:00 AM EDT
OKLAHOMA CITY - U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson will be in Oklahoma City Wednesday to honor the victims, family members, first responders and survivors of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building 22 years ago.
Carson will deliver an address of remembrance of the 168 people who lost their lives in the April 19, 1995 bombing.
The ceremony will begin at 8:50 a.m. and end at 10:30 a.m. It will take place at the Oklahoma City National Memorial at 620 N. Harvey Ave.
Gov. Mary Fallin and Senator James Lankford will also speak at the remembrance.
underpants
(182,883 posts)Myself and a group of students had just wrapped up a last minute study session and we're headed to an Econ test. I passed a wall mounted TV and saw a picture of the building. It didn't register what I was actually looking at. The entire front of the building was gone.
ProfessorGAC
(65,191 posts)I was home that day awaiting the neurologist call. That is the day when they told me i had MS, so i was home all day.
I just remember some idiot "expert" on CNN saying, as we were all looking at the tremendous damage, that this was probably a 12 or 15 pound bomb. I shouted at the TV "This guy is nuts and is clearly no expert" My wife, who of course knew i did some consulting work in the clean up of an arsenal, asked why i thought so. I told her that that was at least 750 pounds, if not closer to 1,000 pounds, depending on what it was. Since there were windows unbroken on the blast side of the building, i told her it was probably AMFO.
Here i am hanging around in my living room and that idiot is getting paid by CNN to be so wrong it was laughable.
masmdu
(2,536 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)You know the bigot republicans who are so frightened of Muslims killing us all.
White men have done almost all the mass killings in this country.