Oklahoma City bombing: FBI case history
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1995 · Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
The Oklahoma City bombing victims & survivors
Violence & criminal investigations
A truck bomb destroyed much of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995, killing 168 people, including 19 children. Investigators traced the attack to Timothy McVeigh and his associates. The American Experience documentary places the crime alongside survivor accounts and the antigovernment extremism that preceded it.
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When1995
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Oklahoma City — American Experience (2017)
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Oklahoma City — American Experience (2017)
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Oklahoma City bombing: FBI case history
Official account of the April 19, 1995 attack and the evidence trail.
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The Oklahoma City bombing: investigator’s retrospective
Retrospective identifies the convictions of McVeigh, Terry Nichols and Michael Fortier without implying that their charges and sentences were identical.
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