I had an uncle who was in the building when it was bombed and he suffered permanent disability and disfigurement. He is elderly now but his face is scarred, body is broken, and he lives in pain everyday.
I worked in the day care in the Murrah building. I was on Maturnity leave at the time. All the kids in my class were killed. It was such a sad sad time.
A police officer ran back and forth in and out of the building handing little ones to whomever was there. The photo is of a firefighter to whom the police officer handed Baylee before running back into the building again. Baylee's mother subsequently met the police officer to thank him, and gave him a photo of Baylee. The police officer was so devastated by the whole of it -- and that he couldn't save her -- that he hung the photo on the wall -- but with it facing the wall.
Baylee Almon. EVERYONE in Oklahoma knows the name of that baby girl (Especially that were in Oklahoma that day) ~ the pictures. We’re well acquainted with those pics. My son was born the next year in December. I still can’t see any of it without bawling. That was the worst part of it all. All the babies, no matter their ages. People were either at the site or glued to the news coverage in the days that followed. You could leave your doors unlocked (in a time where people locked their doors) & if I remember correctly, there weren’t any crimes committed during those early days. EVERY OKLAHOMAN was committed to doing whatever they could to help those that were in need because of the bombing. Lines were around the block, etc to donate needed blood for transfusions, etc.
My brother missed the blast directly by less than 5 minutes. He was in the building for a meeting and had just left his friends. When he reached his car,the building blew up. Shrapnel hit his car. Unfortunately he lost all his friends. The memorial is the most moving site I have ever been to
My dad served in the oklahoma National Guard from 1990 to 1999, and the OKC bombing happened April 19th, 1995. my dad watch the ATF pick up the papers because there was an investigation on them so if anyone put anything in there pockets he was ordered to shoot to kill . One story he told me about the okc bombing was he was in the slab, and imagine 2 piece of concrete wall on top of each other and feet and hands were sticking out of the end, when he lived the top concrete wall the hands stuck to the top piece wall and the feet stuck to the bottom piece of wall , the way it was means that the person that they found was folded in half by the floor and wall. And when my dad found the person he was listening to the song "dirt" by alice in chains and the part in the song where Layne Staley " I want you to scrape me from the walls is when he found the person And other stories he told he was he was watching an ATF agent and the ATF agent look down and sighed and said "look away if you cant handle it" but my dad couldn't look way because he was ordered to watch him, but the ATF agent moved some rocks and pulled out a tricycle and on the right handle there was a little black hand and nothing else just a little black hand on the right handle of the tricycle If you look up "okc bombing firefighter holding baby' the guy that is in that picture my dad grew up with and served in the military the firefighters name is Chris Fields My dad still has nightmares about the bombing. Before the Slab was lifted my dad was giving vicks to dampen the smell and he put some in his nose, on his tongue, and under his nose and he could still smell it super strong. now anytime he smells vicks it smells like dead bloated wet bodys to him One thing my dad said was really weird is that he said there was alot of royalty, Celebrities and politicians When the bombing happened and my dad was sleeping at my aunts house on the couch 14 miles away and it woke him up and blow the windows out My dad listened to the album "Dirt" by Alice in chains but he listened to dirt for 4 days straight at the bombing then the rest of the album. Look up the song dirt and you can imagine what he saw
My oldest daughter was born in Dec 94. My wife went back to work in March 95. My wife and I had many discussions on who should take care of our child while she worked. She found a wonderful daycare to take care of her. Well, my wife's mother insisted she take care of her, and after a great amount of argument I gave in and she stayed with my mother-in-law. Don't be upset with me, I was concerned because she was also looking after other grandchildren and I didn't want her to be overwhelmed. At my mother-in-laws funeral a few years ago, I realized that the childcare facility we almost started taking my daughter was The All-American Daycare Center on the 3rd floor of the Alfred P Murray Federal building. I don't know why it never hit me before. My wife never said the name of the place, just said it was 6 blocks away. I had many run ins with my wife's mother, but to this day I could have never thanked her enough.
Wow!! 😮 So glad you didn't have to suffer the greatest tragedy anyone could experience 💖 My son was born the day after Timothy was executed - that's the closest I got to it.
My dad served in the oklahoma National Guard from 1990 to 1999, and the OKC bombing happened April 19th, 1995. my dad watch the ATF pick up the papers because there was an investigation on them so if anyone put anything in there pockets he was ordered to shoot to kill . One story he told me about the okc bombing was he was in the slab, and imagine 2 piece of concrete wall on top of each other and feet and hands were sticking out of the end, when he lived the top concrete wall the hands stuck to the top piece wall and the feet stuck to the bottom piece of wall , the way it was means that the person that they found was folded in half by the floor and wall. And when my dad found the person he was listening to the song "dirt" by alice in chains and the part in the song where Layne Staley " I want you to scrape me from the walls is when he found the person And other stories he told he was he was watching an ATF agent and the ATF agent look down and sighed and said "look away if you cant handle it" but my dad couldn't look way because he was ordered to watch him, but the ATF agent moved some rocks and pulled out a tricycle and on the right handle there was a little black hand and nothing else just a little black hand on the right handle of the tricycle If you look up "okc bombing firefighter holding baby' the guy that is in that picture my dad grew up with and served in the military the firefighters name is Chris Fields My dad still has nightmares about the bombing. Before the Slab was lifted my dad was giving vicks to dampen the smell and he put some in his nose, on his tongue, and under his nose and he could still smell it super strong. now anytime he smells vicks it smells like dead bloated wet bodys to him One thing my dad said was really weird is that he said there was alot of royalty, Celebrities and politicians When the bombing happened and my dad was sleeping at my aunts house on the couch 14 miles away and it woke him up and blow the windows out My dad listened to the album "Dirt" by Alice in chains but he listened to dirt for 4 days straight at the bombing then the rest of the album. Look up the song dirt and you can imagine what he saw
I was almost 4 years old when this happened. My orthopedic surgeon was Dr Andy Sullivan, whom rushed to the scene, and even had to amputate a woman’s leg, in the rubble.
That morning I was flying from Tulsa to Dallas and our route was just to the east of Oklahoma City. The pilot came on and said something has happened in OKC as there is a very large column of smoke rising from downtown. I was by the window on the right side so could see it clearly as it must have happened only minutes before. Just before landing us in Dallas the pilot updated us somewhat that it was a bombing and not something like a gas leak, etc. Done by former soldiers who understand meticulous planning and had infantry training including explosives, plus back in my “old days” before internet there was “The Anarchist’s Cookbook”, etc. My 20+ years in the Army date back to 1970 and I can tell you there are more of these guys than you want to believe. - Boomer69
My dad served in the oklahoma National Guard from 1990 to 1999, and the OKC bombing happened April 19th, 1995. my dad watch the ATF pick up the papers because there was an investigation on them so if anyone put anything in there pockets he was ordered to shoot to kill . One story he told me about the okc bombing was he was in the slab, and imagine 2 piece of concrete wall on top of each other and feet and hands were sticking out of the end, when he lived the top concrete wall the hands stuck to the top piece wall and the feet stuck to the bottom piece of wall , the way it was means that the person that they found was folded in half by the floor and wall. And when my dad found the person he was listening to the song "dirt" by alice in chains and the part in the song where Layne Staley " I want you to scrape me from the walls is when he found the person And other stories he told he was he was watching an ATF agent and the ATF agent look down and sighed and said "look away if you cant handle it" but my dad couldn't look way because he was ordered to watch him, but the ATF agent moved some rocks and pulled out a tricycle and on the right handle there was a little black hand and nothing else just a little black hand on the right handle of the tricycle If you look up "okc bombing firefighter holding baby' the guy that is in that picture my dad grew up with and served in the military the firefighters name is Chris Fields My dad still has nightmares about the bombing. Before the Slab was lifted my dad was giving vicks to dampen the smell and he put some in his nose, on his tongue, and under his nose and he could still smell it super strong. now anytime he smells vicks it smells like dead bloated wet bodys to him One thing my dad said was really weird is that he said there was alot of royalty, Celebrities and politicians When the bombing happened and my dad was sleeping at my aunts house on the couch 14 miles away and it woke him up and blow the windows out My dad listened to the album "Dirt" by Alice in chains but he listened to dirt for 4 days straight at the bombing then the rest of the album. Look up the song dirt and you can imagine what he saw
I’m an Oklahoman. I encourage anybody who visits OKC National Memorial and Museum. The museum is filled with information, photos, debris, live recordings and so on. It’s harrowing and you’ll likely come out a little different from when you went in but it’s worth it.
I am a lifelong resident of the Oklahoma City metro area and I also suggest that everybody come see the memorial. Personally I was so affected living through it that neither my wife or myself have been able to muster the courage to see it for ourselves.
@@cwalokie9559 I’m not in OKC. I’m near Tulsa. We made a trip to go see it out of respect. I can tell you that just as a fellow okie it was hard. We were all affected that day but living in OKC, since you were personally affected that much I think you are right to wait. It was the most difficult walk through experience I’ve had. There are things to see and hear that are still with me and it has been many years since I went to it. For others not from here I think it’s important to go through and get an understanding of what ter. Or. Ism. Looks/sounds/feels like. If you lived through it with your city you already know more than a museum can show.
I remember that terrifying day. Not just sad but horrifying. For us, there can be no rational for doing something like this. For people like McVeigh, I think no rational is necessary really as they believe that they are at war. The truly frightening thing is that millions of American citizens look through the same lens to still today, and for what they see as even more justification.
I totally agree that there was no justification whatsoever for McVeigh's actions. But I will add what is frightening is the abuse of power by government agencies that continue to this day. If their trend toward implementing absolute power over every aspect of our daily lives and elimination of our rights continue, or another idiotic, unjustified Waco or Ruby Ridge type fiasco by the government takes place, it may inspire more mentally unstable McVeigh-like people to carry out another senseless, violent response. But my biggest concern is that our nation is so divided, it may only take a significant spark by either extremists or the government to ignite a widespread civil war. Then everyone would suffer. I pray we avoid such a conflict with peaceful alternatives. But there are times I am not very optimistic.
My brother was a brand new father and he had planned to be there that morning to apply for his daughters social security card. He was running late for his work though so he decided to do it another day. That office opened at 9:00 am and if he would have been on time, he would have been there. I live am hour away from Oklahoma City and we felt the aftershocks!
My dad served in the oklahoma National Guard from 1990 to 1999, and the OKC bombing happened April 19th, 1995. my dad watch the ATF pick up the papers because there was an investigation on them so if anyone put anything in there pockets he was ordered to shoot to kill . One story he told me about the okc bombing was he was in the slab, and imagine 2 piece of concrete wall on top of each other and feet and hands were sticking out of the end, when he lived the top concrete wall the hands stuck to the top piece wall and the feet stuck to the bottom piece of wall , the way it was means that the person that they found was folded in half by the floor and wall. And when my dad found the person he was listening to the song "dirt" by alice in chains and the part in the song where Layne Staley " I want you to scrape me from the walls is when he found the person And other stories he told he was he was watching an ATF agent and the ATF agent look down and sighed and said "look away if you cant handle it" but my dad couldn't look way because he was ordered to watch him, but the ATF agent moved some rocks and pulled out a tricycle and on the right handle there was a little black hand and nothing else just a little black hand on the right handle of the tricycle If you look up "okc bombing firefighter holding baby' the guy that is in that picture my dad grew up with and served in the military the firefighters name is Chris Fields My dad still has nightmares about the bombing. Before the Slab was lifted my dad was giving vicks to dampen the smell and he put some in his nose, on his tongue, and under his nose and he could still smell it super strong. now anytime he smells vicks it smells like dead bloated wet bodys to him One thing my dad said was really weird is that he said there was alot of royalty, Celebrities and politicians When the bombing happened and my dad was sleeping at my aunts house on the couch 14 miles away and it woke him up and blow the windows out My dad listened to the album "Dirt" by Alice in chains but he listened to dirt for 4 days straight at the bombing then the rest of the album. Look up the song dirt and you can imagine what he saw
She was melted to a chair and said whoever did this i hope you're happy as they carried her out on the chair. I was 14. We felt the blast fock our school from half the city away
The daughter of a woman who worked in a private insurance agency down the street was killed -- Baylee Almon -- in the daycare center and became the "poster child" in the media. She was killed the morning after her first birthday.
FYI - Timothy McVeigh did not want to spend years in prison going through appeals. Therefore, he requested to be put to death as soon as possible since death was his sentence.
Thanks Amanda. Fantastic suggestion. In the early part of my military career my job position on a Special Forces A Team was "Engineer" or "Demolitionist". In addition to learning to employ manufactured explosives, I also specialized in improvised explosives. BPR questioned where one might learn how to construct such a device like this one. It is surprisingly easy to find that information and has been for a long time. People like McVeigh who are homicidal are often also suicidal. They are not afraid of the consequences. Great reaction guys.- Hawk
My nephew worked for the city of Oklahoma City at the time. He was a block away in a basement when the blast happened. When he ran outside the air was full of falling paper and ash. He was one of the first to arrive and help pull survivors from the wreckage. It was the most horrible thing he ever witnessed.
An interesting tidbit, if you can call it that, is that McVeigh was executed two months before 9/11, which would supplant the OKC bombing as the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil. And somewhat ironically, at the time of his execution, McVeigh was 33 years old, the same age David Koresh was when he died at Waco.
You say there was no way of looking this stuff up, but the US Army produced and publicly released a US Army Technical Manual titled TM 31-210 Improvised Munitions Handbook which details everything you could want to know about this sort of thing. It goes over various mixtures and compositions, construction methods and considerations, tamping, shaped charges, blast effects, how to improvise detonators and many other subjects including common building or engineering methods and how to engage them effectively. It discusses taking out roads, bridges, railroads and structures as well as how and where to emplace charges for maximum effectiveness. This book was commonly sold at Army surplus stores and gun shows, and was sometimes even available in public libraries along with many other Army Field and Technical Manuals(I bought the entire collection from my local library for a pittance when they decided to get rid of them after this). The knowledge was probably more easily available then than it is now.
Yes, the Internet was for major corporations and rich people. It wasn't until AOL opened up its software for the masses in 1989. But people didn't want to pay for the software so in 1990 they made the software free and then everyone had the internet.
@@BuccarooRanchProdigy was cheap, lower middle class people had "The Internet" in the 80s. If you could afford the cost of a computer with a modem, you could afford dial-up access. The joys of 14.4 kbps in the early 90s, then jumping up to 28.8 kbps and finally the amazingly fast 56 kbps. I cound a local ISP that provided a browser when I got tired of Prodigy.
@@5stardave Prodigy wasn't available in my area, and they didn't even offer a local dial-up number-only long-distance ones. So, AOL was the only option for me. AOL didn't come to my area until 1997, and my phone company didn’t start offering DSL until 2005.
In the early 90's I toured America doing theatre for young audiences. Our shows were at 10:00 AM, so we loaded into the theatres at 8:00 AM. I was loading my show into a theatre in Waco, TX, when one of the stagehands asked if we had heard what happened in Oklahoma City. I was shocked, as we had played Oklahoma City the day before, and the theatre there was only 3 blocks away from the bombing site. I found out later, that the theatre sustained damage from the blast. I also find it unsettling that I was loading into Waco, of all places, as two years earlier, I played Waco the day before they stormed the Branch Davidian Compound which was one of the reasons Oklahoma City happened. Still gives me the creeps.
I'm from Oklahoma. I'm about an hour south of OKC. I was in 5th grade when the bombing happened. My teacher left the classroom so she could try to get ahold of her daughter cause she was near the Federal building. Her daughter was injured but survived. I knew several kids had parents and other family members near.
I was in an 8th grade art classroom about 8 miles from the federal building when the bomb went off. The classroom shook so bad that the clay pot I was trying to make collapsed from the blast! My friend’s dad worked in that building and supposed to be in the building at the time of the bombing after taking an early flight from San Francisco. But he woke up and decided to take a latter flight instead. He didn’t know why he did this and he had never done that before. But by the grace of God he wasn’t in the building that day. I actually have two pieces of granite that came from the building.
My dad served in the oklahoma National Guard from 1990 to 1999, and the OKC bombing happened April 19th, 1995. my dad watch the ATF pick up the papers because there was an investigation on them so if anyone put anything in there pockets he was ordered to shoot to kill . One story he told me about the okc bombing was he was in the slab, and imagine 2 piece of concrete wall on top of each other and feet and hands were sticking out of the end, when he lived the top concrete wall the hands stuck to the top piece wall and the feet stuck to the bottom piece of wall , the way it was means that the person that they found was folded in half by the floor and wall. And when my dad found the person he was listening to the song "dirt" by alice in chains and the part in the song where Layne Staley " I want you to scrape me from the walls is when he found the person And other stories he told he was he was watching an ATF agent and the ATF agent look down and sighed and said "look away if you cant handle it" but my dad couldn't look way because he was ordered to watch him, but the ATF agent moved some rocks and pulled out a tricycle and on the right handle there was a little black hand and nothing else just a little black hand on the right handle of the tricycle If you look up "okc bombing firefighter holding baby' the guy that is in that picture my dad grew up with and served in the military the firefighters name is Chris Fields My dad still has nightmares about the bombing. Before the Slab was lifted my dad was giving vicks to dampen the smell and he put some in his nose, on his tongue, and under his nose and he could still smell it super strong. now anytime he smells vicks it smells like dead bloated wet bodys to him One thing my dad said was really weird is that he said there was alot of royalty, Celebrities and politicians When the bombing happened and my dad was sleeping at my aunts house on the couch 14 miles away and it woke him up and blow the windows out My dad listened to the album "Dirt" by Alice in chains but he listened to dirt for 4 days straight at the bombing then the rest of the album. Look up the song dirt and you can imagine what he saw
I learned of the explosion in OKC when I logged into AOL at about 10:00 am that morning. I was living in Fort Worth at the time, so the same time zone as OKC. At that point, I turned on the TV for the media coverage. In the DFW media market, the local news media were covering the events and taking the OKC media feeds directly and largely ignoring the Big Three's national coverage from the networks' talking heads in NYC and DC.
I was born in 1984 at St. Anthony's hospital which is 8 blocks from the explosion. Though we moved to Mexico when I was almost one and then to Texas from age 4 until now, we still have family in Oklahoma City, who thankfully were not harmed. Whenever we go visit we always go to the memorial park and it truly is heartbreaking. Such a cowardly and heartless tragedy.
I would like to see more from this channel. It was very well done. This event is the reason there are federal watchlists for people trying to buy large amounts of ammonia nitrate fertilizer and those types of fuels. That racing fuel is now strictly controlled by what is now Homeland Security. Unless you are a farmer or some other line of work that requires that huge of an amount of fertilizer you will be refused sale and have federal agents looking into it. There was a famous photo of a firefighter coming out of the building carrying a dead infant. That image of that still haunts my memory. I was 18 years old. When I became a firefighter a few years later I came to an even better understanding of what that man and all of the other first responders went through on that day every day since. McVeigh was a madman and a coward targeting innocent people, including 19 children who were killed. It became shadowed by 9/11 six years later.
That was a horrible day. I don’t think I saw the iconic photo that was on the front page of every newspaper and article about the bombing-a photo of a firefighter carrying a baby away from the wreckage. The baby did not survive. My daughter was five when this happened and her father and I talked at length about what to tell her. We wanted to tell her on an age appropriate level, which we did. Unfortunately, one her father’s coworkers starting spouting off with details to her and we ended up with trying to cope with her horror along with our own. I can’t fathom the disregard for human life that it takes for someone to do something like that. If I remember correctly, none of them ever expressed any remorse.
My dad served in the oklahoma National Guard from 1990 to 1999, and the OKC bombing happened April 19th, 1995. my dad watch the ATF pick up the papers because there was an investigation on them so if anyone put anything in there pockets he was ordered to shoot to kill . One story he told me about the okc bombing was he was in the slab, and imagine 2 piece of concrete wall on top of each other and feet and hands were sticking out of the end, when he lived the top concrete wall the hands stuck to the top piece wall and the feet stuck to the bottom piece of wall , the way it was means that the person that they found was folded in half by the floor and wall. And when my dad found the person he was listening to the song "dirt" by alice in chains and the part in the song where Layne Staley " I want you to scrape me from the walls is when he found the person And other stories he told he was he was watching an ATF agent and the ATF agent look down and sighed and said "look away if you cant handle it" but my dad couldn't look way because he was ordered to watch him, but the ATF agent moved some rocks and pulled out a tricycle and on the right handle there was a little black hand and nothing else just a little black hand on the right handle of the tricycle If you look up "okc bombing firefighter holding baby' the guy that is in that picture my dad grew up with and served in the military the firefighters name is Chris Fields My dad still has nightmares about the bombing. Before the Slab was lifted my dad was giving vicks to dampen the smell and he put some in his nose, on his tongue, and under his nose and he could still smell it super strong. now anytime he smells vicks it smells like dead bloated wet bodys to him One thing my dad said was really weird is that he said there was alot of royalty, Celebrities and politicians When the bombing happened and my dad was sleeping at my aunts house on the couch 14 miles away and it woke him up and blow the windows out My dad listened to the album "Dirt" by Alice in chains but he listened to dirt for 4 days straight at the bombing then the rest of the album. Look up the song dirt and you can imagine what he saw
I had a limited exposure to this tragedy. I remember hearing it had happened, but more concrete information about it wasn’t known to me. I had just turned 15 a week before this occurred. So heartbreaking and maddening to hear all the planning behind it now. 😢
At the time this happened, my mother was a federal employee at the federal building in fort. Worth? Which was one of the ones that they said was targeted and I went. I worried about my mother every day. Going to work even with the security they had. And they must have had 5 or 6 bombing threats during that time and had to evacuate the building. Thing my mother has since retired, but it was quite an exciting time for all of us
I remember seeing public memorial services for the children. They played the "I Love You" song that Barney (purple dinosaur) sang at the end of each show. It was about the saddest thing I've ever seen.
In the 90's I worked at a bookstore and there was a book that told how to make bombs. I found out when a teenager tried to buy it and the manager asked for ID. After that I hid the book under the metal shelves. I could have gotten in trouble but I didn't care. I found it frightening...
I was in the US Army stationed at Ft. Sill, OK when this happened. We spent a week helping clear debris. A period I'd rather not have memories of. Five years earlier, I was attached to the AZ National Guard in Kingman, AZ as their Supply Sgt. Timothy McVeigh was in our unit.
My friend was on medical staff who had to bring body bags to the bombing site. His wife felt the shock waves at home 10 miles away. They lost several friends who were in the building. They took me to the memorial years later, it was so upsetting. I was overwhelmed with emotions that I couldn't shake for days afterward.
My dad served in the oklahoma National Guard from 1990 to 1999, and the OKC bombing happened April 19th, 1995. my dad watch the ATF pick up the papers because there was an investigation on them so if anyone put anything in there pockets he was ordered to shoot to kill . One story he told me about the okc bombing was he was in the slab, and imagine 2 piece of concrete wall on top of each other and feet and hands were sticking out of the end, when he lived the top concrete wall the hands stuck to the top piece wall and the feet stuck to the bottom piece of wall , the way it was means that the person that they found was folded in half by the floor and wall. And when my dad found the person he was listening to the song "dirt" by alice in chains and the part in the song where Layne Staley " I want you to scrape me from the walls is when he found the person And other stories he told he was he was watching an ATF agent and the ATF agent look down and sighed and said "look away if you cant handle it" but my dad couldn't look way because he was ordered to watch him, but the ATF agent moved some rocks and pulled out a tricycle and on the right handle there was a little black hand and nothing else just a little black hand on the right handle of the tricycle If you look up "okc bombing firefighter holding baby' the guy that is in that picture my dad grew up with and served in the military the firefighters name is Chris Fields and my dad went to prom with on of the victims My dad still has nightmares about the bombing. Before the Slab was lifted my dad was giving vicks to dampen the smell and he put some in his nose, on his tongue, and under his nose and he could still smell it super strong. now anytime he smells vicks it smells like dead bloated wet bodys to him One thing my dad said was really weird is that he said there was alot of royalty, Celebrities and politicians When the bombing happened and my dad was sleeping at my aunts house on the couch 14 miles away and it woke him up and blow the windows out My dad listened to the album "Dirt" by Alice in chains but he listened to dirt for 4 days straight at the bombing then the rest of the album. Look up the song dirt and you can imagine what he saw
USAF 91-97. I was stationed at Tinker AFB (Just E of OKC) from 92-96. I was on leave the day it happened. Had a friend from my unit in the building when it happened.
The red haired lady toward the end of the video at the memorial lost her 2 kids in the bombing. So many heartbreaking stories. The bomb was felt in several small towns around OKC.
I lived on the 17th floor of the regency tower in 99-03 my balcony overlooked the memorial and I remember September 11th 2001 as hell was breaking out in NYC and DC standing there looking down at those chairs tears streaming down my face
My dad served in the oklahoma National Guard from 1990 to 1999, and the OKC bombing happened April 19th, 1995. my dad watch the ATF pick up the papers because there was an investigation on them so if anyone put anything in there pockets he was ordered to shoot to kill . One story he told me about the okc bombing was he was in the slab, and imagine 2 piece of concrete wall on top of each other and feet and hands were sticking out of the end, when he lived the top concrete wall the hands stuck to the top piece wall and the feet stuck to the bottom piece of wall , the way it was means that the person that they found was folded in half by the floor and wall. And when my dad found the person he was listening to the song "dirt" by alice in chains and the part in the song where Layne Staley " I want you to scrape me from the walls is when he found the person And other stories he told he was he was watching an ATF agent and the ATF agent look down and sighed and said "look away if you cant handle it" but my dad couldn't look way because he was ordered to watch him, but the ATF agent moved some rocks and pulled out a tricycle and on the right handle there was a little black hand and nothing else just a little black hand on the right handle of the tricycle If you look up "okc bombing firefighter holding baby' the guy that is in that picture my dad grew up with and served in the military the firefighters name is Chris Fields My dad still has nightmares about the bombing. Before the Slab was lifted my dad was giving vicks to dampen the smell and he put some in his nose, on his tongue, and under his nose and he could still smell it super strong. now anytime he smells vicks it smells like dead bloated wet bodys to him One thing my dad said was really weird is that he said there was alot of royalty, Celebrities and politicians When the bombing happened and my dad was sleeping at my aunts house on the couch 14 miles away and it woke him up and blow the windows out My dad listened to the album "Dirt" by Alice in chains but he listened to dirt for 4 days straight at the bombing then the rest of the album. Look up the song dirt and you can imagine what he saw
I felt this blast from 7 miles away in 7th grade gym class, we thought it was a jet from the local AFB breaking the sound barrier. I ended up serving in the Army with one of the OKC PDs first responders to this, it wore heavy on him a decade later.
The UA-cam channel POPO MEDIC has great videos on Ruby Ridge "The FBI & ATF Siege of Ruby Ridge..." and on Waco "The ATF Battle & Cult of Waco…". His videos on them is the best I've seen and I highly recommend them.
I was a t work 12 miles away when the Murrah building was destroyed. It shook the building even that far away. My best friends wife was working in an office a block away from the building and had just gotten under her desk to recover something she had dropped, when the ceiling caved in. If she had not been under the desk she would most likely have died. The explosion was so loud, she actually could not hear it.
My dad served in the oklahoma National Guard from 1990 to 1999, and the OKC bombing happened April 19th, 1995. my dad watch the ATF pick up the papers because there was an investigation on them so if anyone put anything in there pockets he was ordered to shoot to kill . One story he told me about the okc bombing was he was in the slab, and imagine 2 piece of concrete wall on top of each other and feet and hands were sticking out of the end, when he lived the top concrete wall the hands stuck to the top piece wall and the feet stuck to the bottom piece of wall , the way it was means that the person that they found was folded in half by the floor and wall. And when my dad found the person he was listening to the song "dirt" by alice in chains and the part in the song where Layne Staley " I want you to scrape me from the walls is when he found the person And other stories he told he was he was watching an ATF agent and the ATF agent look down and sighed and said "look away if you cant handle it" but my dad couldn't look way because he was ordered to watch him, but the ATF agent moved some rocks and pulled out a tricycle and on the right handle there was a little black hand and nothing else just a little black hand on the right handle of the tricycle If you look up "okc bombing firefighter holding baby' the guy that is in that picture my dad grew up with and served in the military the firefighters name is Chris Fields My dad still has nightmares about the bombing. Before the Slab was lifted my dad was giving vicks to dampen the smell and he put some in his nose, on his tongue, and under his nose and he could still smell it super strong. now anytime he smells vicks it smells like dead bloated wet bodys to him One thing my dad said was really weird is that he said there was alot of royalty, Celebrities and politicians When the bombing happened and my dad was sleeping at my aunts house on the couch 14 miles away and it woke him up and blow the windows out My dad listened to the album "Dirt" by Alice in chains but he listened to dirt for 4 days straight at the bombing then the rest of the album. Look up the song dirt and you can imagine what he saw
I was only a toddler living in OKC when this happened. We were looking at an apartment not far from the blast site. So glad we didn't. Such a horrible day.
I was hospitalized in Texas when this happened, and my mother worked for the Department of Agriculture in Oklahoma City. I panicked, and it took hours for the hospital to help me get hold of my mother, as the telephone lines were jammed with so many people trying to get through. Fortunately, turned out since she worked for the state Department of Agriculture, not in the federal building. But she did know a number of the people in the federal building, since she did frequently work with them. And she could feel the explosion from the building she worked in.
All that information about construction and logistics was available and provided by the US Govt to various rebel groups in south and central america, africa, the middle east, the balkans, and southeast asia. Publicly available TM (Training Manuals) and FM (Field Manuals) were also available under FOIA to US Citizens.
I remember this day very well. I worked less then two miles away and we felt the explosion a good deal. One of my co-workers lost her mom in the bombing. It was a very sad sad day!
I actually was born and raised in OKC, and still live 10 minutes from the site. My dad is a retired fire chief, and actually worked this tragedy. Very sad day for us Okies!
I was at our local court house doing jury duty. When the bombing occured we hurried out of the court house to safety. Law enforcement wasn't sure if our bldg was at risk.
How naive the world was back. This tragic incident was at the time the worst terrorist attack in US soil. Many people thought an attack this big were ever happened again in US, little we know a decade later, 9/11 would happened. The worst terrorist in modern history. A curious fact, McFaye, the main suspect behind the attack was executed by lethal injection a month before 9/11. Crazy!
The part that hurt Oklahomans even more than just the explosion was the fact that Oklahoma had nothing to do with either Ruby Ridge NOR Waco which both happened in other states located hundreds of miles away. Everyone killed was an innocent victim and not a single person killed had anything to do with why those men were pissed off.
I was a University intern in a government department office that day. It was the first time I experienced hatred from people of one State, directed at me from another State.
Just come across your video reaction, this very day we lived in another large city in Oklahoma called Tulsa which is around a 100 miles from OKC. My wife was up early and talking with her aunt that lived 5 miles South of the Metro, while my wife was in conversation with her aunt all of her windows on the North side and many on the South was blown out from the Shock wave, my wife immediately turned on the T.V. and woke me up and we viewed this from OKC local news station. Very horrific, it is crazy with one person can do with so much, what's the interview before they put him to death and he has so much hate it's too crazy cuz he said even the children deserve to die. God Bless
Fun fact: in the US, some states allow for a last meal for those on death row, where the prisoner sentenced to die can request something special to eat before their execution. Timothy’s final meal was two pints of mint chocolate chip ice cream. It is widely disputed if he should’ve gotten a final meal, as he a domestic terrorists, not a common death row candidate.
I live in Cushing Ok about 65 miles from the Murrah building,. the explosion sounded like Thunder in the distance .. we could hear it from that distance
McVeigh could have learned bomb making and disassembling explosives in the Army. My husband was a Marine in Vietnam and told me he knew how to make a bomb. We were casually talking at my parents house and somehow the subject came up, and he said to me that in fact he could make it with materials already found around the house!
There was the "Anarchist Cookbook" that was used back then, but yes the detail, and therefore cruelty, he took into consideration was absolutely shocking.
My mum would have been in OKC attending a morning meeting in that building had I not woken up the day before violently sick and she had to take a couple days off to take care of me. My older brother was living in the City and would drive to work along that road, at that time. He had a flat tire and was running late that day. My family got very lucky.
I saw a documentary about 9/11 that said the NYC FBI office had to evacuate because they found a Ryder truck like the one used in this bombing and they were afraid it was a truck bomb.
They closed all the federal offices, I was in the Federal courthouse and where the US Marshals closed the building up, it was searched with swat and dogs.
A Gulf War veteran, McVeigh became radicalized by anti-government beliefs. He sought revenge against the United States federal government for the 1993 Waco siege 76 Branch Davidians, including 25 children, as well as the 1992 Ruby Ridge incident. McVeigh expressed particular disapproval of federal agencies such as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for their handling of issues regarding private citizens. McVeigh received several service awards, including the Bronze Star Medal National Defence Service Medal, Southwest Asia Service Medal, Army Service Ribbon, and the Kuwaiti Liberation Medal. McVeigh claimed that the bombing was revenge against the government for the sieges at Waco and Ruby Ridge. The Army had taught McVeigh that Collateral Damage was acceptable and tolerated they were the 168 people, including 19 children. Peace out.
For anyone who doesn't know what the Battles of Lexington and Concord were they kicked off the start of the American Revolutionary War on April 19, 1775.
The one and only day of kindergarten I remember. My elementary was right down the road and I happened to be looking out the window in the direction of the Murrah building when the bomb went off.
@@b.slocumb7763 Hi, The story line was in and around Dallas, but the physical sets were mostly in and around LA. The building they were using pre-explosion was the LA Center Studios in downtown LA. Trying to find my old reference, but the post explosion was either a news report film or maybe they CG'd the OKC building.😊
You just heard a small part of the story. There is a gigantic rabbit hole in which you can venture if you're willing. I've no idea what, if any, of the conspiracies are true, but there are so many holes in the official story that certainly leaves one wondering.
Merrick Garland was the Fed Prosecuter of McVeigh-Nichols trial..... that should say to you right away that Fed Coverup of real bombers & falsified evidence in trial..... Why did ALL FBI, ATF, & DOJ employees not go to work that day......... of the nearly 500 employees who worked there the morning of the bombing, those that never came to work that day were Clinton's FBI, ATF, & DOJ employees...
My dad served in the oklahoma National Guard from 1990 to 1999, and the OKC bombing happened April 19th, 1995. my dad watch the ATF pick up the papers because there was an investigation on them so if anyone put anything in there pockets he was ordered to shoot to kill . One story he told me about the okc bombing was he was in the slab, and imagine 2 piece of concrete wall on top of each other and feet and hands were sticking out of the end, when he lived the top concrete wall the hands stuck to the top piece wall and the feet stuck to the bottom piece of wall , the way it was means that the person that they found was folded in half by the floor and wall. And when my dad found the person he was listening to the song "dirt" by alice in chains and the part in the song where Layne Staley " I want you to scrape me from the walls" is when he found the person And other stories he told he was he was watching an ATF agent and the ATF agent look down and sighed and said "look away if you cant handle it" but my dad couldn't look way because he was ordered to watch him, but the ATF agent moved some rocks and pulled out a tricycle and on the right handle there was a little black hand and nothing else just a little black hand on the right handle of the tricycle If you look up "okc bombing firefighter holding baby' the guy that is in that picture my dad grew up with and served in the military the firefighters name is Chris Fields My dad still has nightmares about the bombing. Before the Slab was lifted my dad was giving vicks to dampen the smell and he put some in his nose, on his tongue, and under his nose and he could still smell it super strong. now anytime he smells vicks it smells like dead bloated wet bodys to him One thing my dad said was really weird is that he said there was alot of royalty, Celebrities and politicians my dad denied jesse jackson entry because he didnt have the right color dot. When the bombing happened and my dad was sleeping at my aunts house on the couch 14 miles away and it woke him up and blow the windows out My dad listened to the album "Dirt" by Alice in chains but he listened to dirt for 4 days straight at the bombing then the rest of the album. Look up the song dirt and you can imagine what he saw
I was on my way to the moore health department when the bomb went off and i actually felt it.. that is the day i found out inwas pregnant with my now 28 year old daughter. My mother in law at the time was an emergency room nurse and was downtown helping with the injured and deceased. My sister lost her beat friend in the blast. She was the last one oulled out of the building.. thanks for this reaction guys. One a horrible day in Oklahoma but you should see the memorial and the museum they jave put up on the grounds...
If you lived in Oklahoma during this time you for sure will always remember this day. We were in school and it sounded like someone kicked in a window or a sonic boom. We went to school roughly 35 miles to the west of the building. It affected many. My grandmother was in the journal records building the buidling across the street essentially. "We will never forget "
I was 11 years old when this happened and my family lived between 50-65 miles away. My mom was at home when this happened, It was a big enough blast that my parents home shook from the blast.
When the narrator said early on that, "they met at Fort Benning", that meant that they were in the US Army. That's where they learned about explosives and how to improvise when needed.
I was in school when this happened, about 60 miles away. When it went off, we didnt hear it of course, but we noticed the windows shaking. We all thought it was a small earthquake. Thats how powerful the explosion was. When news got out, the rest of the school day was just watching the news and being horrified
My first husband was parked in the post office parking lot right next to the street catty corner from the Murrah building. He had just left the Murrah building from delivering mail and had gone around the block to go back to the building due to a missed package to be delivered. He had to pee all the sudden so he pulled into the PO parking lot and had his hand on the handle getting ready to open the door when it went off. He said when he came to, he had been spun around and blown into the back of his mail truck. Everything from this point I can't say on here as it might get flagged for some asinine reason, as it has some mild gory details. Unfortunately his mind did not recuperate after that. His name is on the survivor wall, however he is no longer alive. That was a day that changed our lives forever.
I was about 10 blocks straight in front of it standing on the top edges of my bucket, not advised, on my bucket truck, while a crane lifted 4 huge parking lot lights i had mounted and bolted together. My truck wouldnt go high enough so i had few other options. I knew nothing until the fiberglass bucket i was standing on and myself were blasted with air and shaken to the core. Luckly i pulled my arms and legs in just in time to fall inside the bucket. When i finally peeked over the edge of the bucket i could see the huge dust cloud and fire to the south of me. When the crane operators asked what happened. My reply was ; im not exactly sure but there's some dead people that direction. I wish id said something cooler and not so direct but it is what it is. That evening I delivered our generators and light plants that we had on hand, for the workers looking for people that might still be alive.
It’s a great memorial and museum to visit. The memorial site just has this aura of profound silence. I’ve only ever felt it there and also at the 9/11 memorial.
He parked it right in front of the daycare. He knew the daycare was there. He was a monster.
I had an uncle who was in the building when it was bombed and he suffered permanent disability and disfigurement. He is elderly now but his face is scarred, body is broken, and he lives in pain everyday.
I worked in the day care in the Murrah building. I was on Maturnity leave at the time. All the kids in my class were killed. It was such a sad sad time.
I am so so sorry
I think of the picture with the firefighter coming out holding a baby.
That baby was my niece Baylee Almon
A police officer ran back and forth in and out of the building handing little ones to whomever was there. The photo is of a firefighter to whom the police officer handed Baylee before running back into the building again.
Baylee's mother subsequently met the police officer to thank him, and gave him a photo of Baylee. The police officer was so devastated by the whole of it -- and that he couldn't save her -- that he hung the photo on the wall -- but with it facing the wall.
Baylee Almon. EVERYONE in Oklahoma knows the name of that baby girl (Especially that were in Oklahoma that day) ~ the pictures. We’re well acquainted with those pics. My son was born the next year in December. I still can’t see any of it without bawling. That was the worst part of it all. All the babies, no matter their ages. People were either at the site or glued to the news coverage in the days that followed. You could leave your doors unlocked (in a time where people locked their doors) & if I remember correctly, there weren’t any crimes committed during those early days. EVERY OKLAHOMAN was committed to doing whatever they could to help those that were in need because of the bombing. Lines were around the block, etc to donate needed blood for transfusions, etc.
My brother missed the blast directly by less than 5 minutes. He was in the building for a meeting and had just left his friends. When he reached his car,the building blew up. Shrapnel hit his car. Unfortunately he lost all his friends. The memorial is the most moving site I have ever been to
It's so moving isn't it? I live in OKC and am moved every time I see it. And the tree that survived!
My dad served in the oklahoma National Guard from 1990 to 1999, and the OKC bombing happened April 19th, 1995.
my dad watch the ATF pick up the papers because there was an investigation on them so if anyone put anything in there pockets he was ordered to shoot to kill .
One story he told me about the okc bombing was he was in the slab, and imagine 2 piece of concrete wall on top of each other and feet and hands were sticking out of the end, when he lived the top concrete wall the hands stuck to the top piece wall and the feet stuck to the bottom piece of wall , the way it was means that the person that they found was folded in half by the floor and wall. And when my dad found the person he was listening to the song "dirt" by alice in chains and the part in the song where Layne Staley " I want you to scrape me from the walls is when he found the person
And other stories he told he was he was watching an ATF agent and the ATF agent look down and sighed and said "look away if you cant handle it" but my dad couldn't look way because he was ordered to watch him, but the ATF agent moved some rocks and pulled out a tricycle and on the right handle there was a little black hand and nothing else just a little black hand on the right handle of the tricycle
If you look up "okc bombing firefighter holding baby' the guy that is in that picture my dad grew up with and served in the military the firefighters name is Chris Fields
My dad still has nightmares about the bombing. Before the Slab was lifted my dad was giving vicks to dampen the smell and he put some in his nose, on his tongue, and under his nose and he could still smell it super strong. now anytime he smells vicks it smells like dead bloated wet bodys to him
One thing my dad said was really weird is that he said there was alot of royalty, Celebrities and politicians
When the bombing happened and my dad was sleeping at my aunts house on the couch 14 miles away and it woke him up and blow the windows out
My dad listened to the album "Dirt" by Alice in chains but he listened to dirt for 4 days straight at the bombing then the rest of the album.
Look up the song dirt and you can imagine what he saw
@@lorriredmon8212They give saplings from that tree to Survivors
My oldest daughter was born in Dec 94. My wife went back to work in March 95. My wife and I had many discussions on who should take care of our child while she worked. She found a wonderful daycare to take care of her. Well, my wife's mother insisted she take care of her, and after a great amount of argument I gave in and she stayed with my mother-in-law. Don't be upset with me, I was concerned because she was also looking after other grandchildren and I didn't want her to be overwhelmed. At my mother-in-laws funeral a few years ago, I realized that the childcare facility we almost started taking my daughter was The All-American Daycare Center on the 3rd floor of the Alfred P Murray Federal building. I don't know why it never hit me before. My wife never said the name of the place, just said it was 6 blocks away. I had many run ins with my wife's mother, but to this day I could have never thanked her enough.
Wow!! 😮 So glad you didn't have to suffer the greatest tragedy anyone could experience 💖
My son was born the day after Timothy was executed - that's the closest I got to it.
My dad served in the oklahoma National Guard from 1990 to 1999, and the OKC bombing happened April 19th, 1995.
my dad watch the ATF pick up the papers because there was an investigation on them so if anyone put anything in there pockets he was ordered to shoot to kill .
One story he told me about the okc bombing was he was in the slab, and imagine 2 piece of concrete wall on top of each other and feet and hands were sticking out of the end, when he lived the top concrete wall the hands stuck to the top piece wall and the feet stuck to the bottom piece of wall , the way it was means that the person that they found was folded in half by the floor and wall. And when my dad found the person he was listening to the song "dirt" by alice in chains and the part in the song where Layne Staley " I want you to scrape me from the walls is when he found the person
And other stories he told he was he was watching an ATF agent and the ATF agent look down and sighed and said "look away if you cant handle it" but my dad couldn't look way because he was ordered to watch him, but the ATF agent moved some rocks and pulled out a tricycle and on the right handle there was a little black hand and nothing else just a little black hand on the right handle of the tricycle
If you look up "okc bombing firefighter holding baby' the guy that is in that picture my dad grew up with and served in the military the firefighters name is Chris Fields
My dad still has nightmares about the bombing. Before the Slab was lifted my dad was giving vicks to dampen the smell and he put some in his nose, on his tongue, and under his nose and he could still smell it super strong. now anytime he smells vicks it smells like dead bloated wet bodys to him
One thing my dad said was really weird is that he said there was alot of royalty, Celebrities and politicians
When the bombing happened and my dad was sleeping at my aunts house on the couch 14 miles away and it woke him up and blow the windows out
My dad listened to the album "Dirt" by Alice in chains but he listened to dirt for 4 days straight at the bombing then the rest of the album.
Look up the song dirt and you can imagine what he saw
I was almost 4 years old when this happened. My orthopedic surgeon was Dr Andy Sullivan, whom rushed to the scene, and even had to amputate a woman’s leg, in the rubble.
That morning I was flying from Tulsa to Dallas and our route was just to the east of Oklahoma City. The pilot came on and said something has happened in OKC as there is a very large column of smoke rising from downtown. I was by the window on the right side so could see it clearly as it must have happened only minutes before. Just before landing us in Dallas the pilot updated us somewhat that it was a bombing and not something like a gas leak, etc. Done by former soldiers who understand meticulous planning and had infantry training including explosives, plus back in my “old days” before internet there was “The Anarchist’s Cookbook”, etc. My 20+ years in the Army date back to 1970 and I can tell you there are more of these guys than you want to believe. - Boomer69
Thank you for your service and sacrifices.
He was a combat engineer. He made a field expedient cratering charge.
My dad served in the oklahoma National Guard from 1990 to 1999, and the OKC bombing happened April 19th, 1995.
my dad watch the ATF pick up the papers because there was an investigation on them so if anyone put anything in there pockets he was ordered to shoot to kill .
One story he told me about the okc bombing was he was in the slab, and imagine 2 piece of concrete wall on top of each other and feet and hands were sticking out of the end, when he lived the top concrete wall the hands stuck to the top piece wall and the feet stuck to the bottom piece of wall , the way it was means that the person that they found was folded in half by the floor and wall. And when my dad found the person he was listening to the song "dirt" by alice in chains and the part in the song where Layne Staley " I want you to scrape me from the walls is when he found the person
And other stories he told he was he was watching an ATF agent and the ATF agent look down and sighed and said "look away if you cant handle it" but my dad couldn't look way because he was ordered to watch him, but the ATF agent moved some rocks and pulled out a tricycle and on the right handle there was a little black hand and nothing else just a little black hand on the right handle of the tricycle
If you look up "okc bombing firefighter holding baby' the guy that is in that picture my dad grew up with and served in the military the firefighters name is Chris Fields
My dad still has nightmares about the bombing. Before the Slab was lifted my dad was giving vicks to dampen the smell and he put some in his nose, on his tongue, and under his nose and he could still smell it super strong. now anytime he smells vicks it smells like dead bloated wet bodys to him
One thing my dad said was really weird is that he said there was alot of royalty, Celebrities and politicians
When the bombing happened and my dad was sleeping at my aunts house on the couch 14 miles away and it woke him up and blow the windows out
My dad listened to the album "Dirt" by Alice in chains but he listened to dirt for 4 days straight at the bombing then the rest of the album.
Look up the song dirt and you can imagine what he saw
I’m an Oklahoman. I encourage anybody who visits OKC National Memorial and Museum. The museum is filled with information, photos, debris, live recordings and so on. It’s harrowing and you’ll likely come out a little different from when you went in but it’s worth it.
I am a lifelong resident of the Oklahoma City metro area and I also suggest that everybody come see the memorial. Personally I was so affected living through it that neither my wife or myself have been able to muster the courage to see it for ourselves.
@@cwalokie9559 I’m not in OKC. I’m near Tulsa. We made a trip to go see it out of respect. I can tell you that just as a fellow okie it was hard. We were all affected that day but living in OKC, since you were personally affected that much I think you are right to wait. It was the most difficult walk through experience I’ve had. There are things to see and hear that are still with me and it has been many years since I went to it. For others not from here I think it’s important to go through and get an understanding of what ter. Or. Ism. Looks/sounds/feels like. If you lived through it with your city you already know more than a museum can show.
@@nicolem376 thank you
I remember that terrifying day. Not just sad but horrifying. For us, there can be no rational for doing something like this. For people like McVeigh, I think no rational is necessary really as they believe that they are at war. The truly frightening thing is that millions of American citizens look through the same lens to still today, and for what they see as even more justification.
I totally agree that there was no justification whatsoever for McVeigh's actions. But I will add what is frightening is the abuse of power by government agencies that continue to this day. If their trend toward implementing absolute power over every aspect of our daily lives and elimination of our rights continue, or another idiotic, unjustified Waco or Ruby Ridge type fiasco by the government takes place, it may inspire more mentally unstable McVeigh-like people to carry out another senseless, violent response. But my biggest concern is that our nation is so divided, it may only take a significant spark by either extremists or the government to ignite a widespread civil war. Then everyone would suffer. I pray we avoid such a conflict with peaceful alternatives. But there are times I am not very optimistic.
My brother was a brand new father and he had planned to be there that morning to apply for his daughters social security card. He was running late for his work though so he decided to do it another day. That office opened at 9:00 am and if he would have been on time, he would have been there. I live am hour away from Oklahoma City and we felt the aftershocks!
My dad served in the oklahoma National Guard from 1990 to 1999, and the OKC bombing happened April 19th, 1995.
my dad watch the ATF pick up the papers because there was an investigation on them so if anyone put anything in there pockets he was ordered to shoot to kill .
One story he told me about the okc bombing was he was in the slab, and imagine 2 piece of concrete wall on top of each other and feet and hands were sticking out of the end, when he lived the top concrete wall the hands stuck to the top piece wall and the feet stuck to the bottom piece of wall , the way it was means that the person that they found was folded in half by the floor and wall. And when my dad found the person he was listening to the song "dirt" by alice in chains and the part in the song where Layne Staley " I want you to scrape me from the walls is when he found the person
And other stories he told he was he was watching an ATF agent and the ATF agent look down and sighed and said "look away if you cant handle it" but my dad couldn't look way because he was ordered to watch him, but the ATF agent moved some rocks and pulled out a tricycle and on the right handle there was a little black hand and nothing else just a little black hand on the right handle of the tricycle
If you look up "okc bombing firefighter holding baby' the guy that is in that picture my dad grew up with and served in the military the firefighters name is Chris Fields
My dad still has nightmares about the bombing. Before the Slab was lifted my dad was giving vicks to dampen the smell and he put some in his nose, on his tongue, and under his nose and he could still smell it super strong. now anytime he smells vicks it smells like dead bloated wet bodys to him
One thing my dad said was really weird is that he said there was alot of royalty, Celebrities and politicians
When the bombing happened and my dad was sleeping at my aunts house on the couch 14 miles away and it woke him up and blow the windows out
My dad listened to the album "Dirt" by Alice in chains but he listened to dirt for 4 days straight at the bombing then the rest of the album.
Look up the song dirt and you can imagine what he saw
I remember one mother lost both of her little boys in the daycare.
I walk by a memorial for those children , it's a couple of small stone benches with a bronze placard near where they lived in Del City Oklahoma.
Chase and Colton Smith 😢
She was melted to a chair and said whoever did this i hope you're happy as they carried her out on the chair. I was 14. We felt the blast fock our school from half the city away
The daughter of a woman who worked in a private insurance agency down the street was killed -- Baylee Almon -- in the daycare center and became the "poster child" in the media.
She was killed the morning after her first birthday.
I remember that photo…. So tragic 😔❤️🐝
BAYLEE
@@boomersoonerbaby3466 Thank you. Corrected.
That picture haunts me
FYI - Timothy McVeigh did not want to spend years in prison going through appeals. Therefore, he requested to be put to death as soon as possible since death was his sentence.
Yet we must remember that anyone else would have been saddled with automatic delays ad nauseum.
I remember that.
Thanks Amanda. Fantastic suggestion. In the early part of my military career my job position on a Special Forces A Team was "Engineer" or "Demolitionist". In addition to learning to employ manufactured explosives, I also specialized in improvised explosives. BPR questioned where one might learn how to construct such a device like this one. It is surprisingly easy to find that information and has been for a long time. People like McVeigh who are homicidal are often also suicidal. They are not afraid of the consequences. Great reaction guys.- Hawk
My nephew worked for the city of Oklahoma City at the time. He was a block away in a basement when the blast happened. When he ran outside the air was full of falling paper and ash. He was one of the first to arrive and help pull survivors from the wreckage. It was the most horrible thing he ever witnessed.
An interesting tidbit, if you can call it that, is that McVeigh was executed two months before 9/11, which would supplant the OKC bombing as the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil.
And somewhat ironically, at the time of his execution, McVeigh was 33 years old, the same age David Koresh was when he died at Waco.
You say there was no way of looking this stuff up, but the US Army produced and publicly released a US Army Technical Manual titled TM 31-210 Improvised Munitions Handbook which details everything you could want to know about this sort of thing. It goes over various mixtures and compositions, construction methods and considerations, tamping, shaped charges, blast effects, how to improvise detonators and many other subjects including common building or engineering methods and how to engage them effectively. It discusses taking out roads, bridges, railroads and structures as well as how and where to emplace charges for maximum effectiveness. This book was commonly sold at Army surplus stores and gun shows, and was sometimes even available in public libraries along with many other Army Field and Technical Manuals(I bought the entire collection from my local library for a pittance when they decided to get rid of them after this). The knowledge was probably more easily available then than it is now.
I was in Fort Worth when it happened. The restaurant I managed sent a trailer full of drinking water, Gatorade,, coffee, and Cokes.
The internet did exist before 1995, CompuServe, Prodigy & AOL were all the rage back then.
Yes, the Internet was for major corporations and rich people. It wasn't until AOL opened up its software for the masses in 1989. But people didn't want to pay for the software so in 1990 they made the software free and then everyone had the internet.
@@BuccarooRanchProdigy was cheap, lower middle class people had "The Internet" in the 80s. If you could afford the cost of a computer with a modem, you could afford dial-up access. The joys of 14.4 kbps in the early 90s, then jumping up to 28.8 kbps and finally the amazingly fast 56 kbps. I cound a local ISP that provided a browser when I got tired of Prodigy.
@@5stardave Prodigy wasn't available in my area, and they didn't even offer a local dial-up number-only long-distance ones. So, AOL was the only option for me. AOL didn't come to my area until 1997, and my phone company didn’t start offering DSL until 2005.
@@BuccarooRanch you mean military, colleges, corporations and computer geeks.
In the early 90's I toured America doing theatre for young audiences. Our shows were at 10:00 AM, so we loaded into the theatres at 8:00 AM. I was loading my show into a theatre in Waco, TX, when one of the stagehands asked if we had heard what happened in Oklahoma City. I was shocked, as we had played Oklahoma City the day before, and the theatre there was only 3 blocks away from the bombing site. I found out later, that the theatre sustained damage from the blast. I also find it unsettling that I was loading into Waco, of all places, as two years earlier, I played Waco the day before they stormed the Branch Davidian Compound which was one of the reasons Oklahoma City happened. Still gives me the creeps.
I'm from Oklahoma. I'm about an hour south of OKC. I was in 5th grade when the bombing happened. My teacher left the classroom so she could try to get ahold of her daughter cause she was near the Federal building. Her daughter was injured but survived. I knew several kids had parents and other family members near.
I was in an 8th grade art classroom about 8 miles from the federal building when the bomb went off. The classroom shook so bad that the clay pot I was trying to make collapsed from the blast! My friend’s dad worked in that building and supposed to be in the building at the time of the bombing after taking an early flight from San Francisco. But he woke up and decided to take a latter flight instead. He didn’t know why he did this and he had never done that before. But by the grace of God he wasn’t in the building that day. I actually have two pieces of granite that came from the building.
My dad served in the oklahoma National Guard from 1990 to 1999, and the OKC bombing happened April 19th, 1995.
my dad watch the ATF pick up the papers because there was an investigation on them so if anyone put anything in there pockets he was ordered to shoot to kill .
One story he told me about the okc bombing was he was in the slab, and imagine 2 piece of concrete wall on top of each other and feet and hands were sticking out of the end, when he lived the top concrete wall the hands stuck to the top piece wall and the feet stuck to the bottom piece of wall , the way it was means that the person that they found was folded in half by the floor and wall. And when my dad found the person he was listening to the song "dirt" by alice in chains and the part in the song where Layne Staley " I want you to scrape me from the walls is when he found the person
And other stories he told he was he was watching an ATF agent and the ATF agent look down and sighed and said "look away if you cant handle it" but my dad couldn't look way because he was ordered to watch him, but the ATF agent moved some rocks and pulled out a tricycle and on the right handle there was a little black hand and nothing else just a little black hand on the right handle of the tricycle
If you look up "okc bombing firefighter holding baby' the guy that is in that picture my dad grew up with and served in the military the firefighters name is Chris Fields
My dad still has nightmares about the bombing. Before the Slab was lifted my dad was giving vicks to dampen the smell and he put some in his nose, on his tongue, and under his nose and he could still smell it super strong. now anytime he smells vicks it smells like dead bloated wet bodys to him
One thing my dad said was really weird is that he said there was alot of royalty, Celebrities and politicians
When the bombing happened and my dad was sleeping at my aunts house on the couch 14 miles away and it woke him up and blow the windows out
My dad listened to the album "Dirt" by Alice in chains but he listened to dirt for 4 days straight at the bombing then the rest of the album.
Look up the song dirt and you can imagine what he saw
Actually, the internet existed then. I remember being on America On-Line during the 90s.
And that Dial-Up tone! 😂😋
@@xoxxobob61 and "you've got mail" :)
I learned of the explosion in OKC when I logged into AOL at about 10:00 am that morning. I was living in Fort Worth at the time, so the same time zone as OKC. At that point, I turned on the TV for the media coverage.
In the DFW media market, the local news media were covering the events and taking the OKC media feeds directly and largely ignoring the Big Three's national coverage from the networks' talking heads in NYC and DC.
Happy Easter. Yeah I was in high school when it happened
I was born in 1984 at St. Anthony's hospital which is 8 blocks from the explosion. Though we moved to Mexico when I was almost one and then to Texas from age 4 until now, we still have family in Oklahoma City, who thankfully were not harmed. Whenever we go visit we always go to the memorial park and it truly is heartbreaking. Such a cowardly and heartless tragedy.
When I saw the thumbnail, I thought: "Oklahoma", the musical. Wow! But, nope. Little bit different, in'it?
I would like to see more from this channel. It was very well done.
This event is the reason there are federal watchlists for people trying to buy large amounts of ammonia nitrate fertilizer and those types of fuels.
That racing fuel is now strictly controlled by what is now Homeland Security.
Unless you are a farmer or some other line of work that requires that huge of an amount of fertilizer you will be refused sale and have federal agents looking into it.
There was a famous photo of a firefighter coming out of the building carrying a dead infant.
That image of that still haunts my memory. I was 18 years old.
When I became a firefighter a few years later I came to an even better understanding of what that man and all of the other first responders went through on that day every day since.
McVeigh was a madman and a coward targeting innocent people, including 19 children who were killed.
It became shadowed by 9/11 six years later.
I remember that day well.
That was a horrible day. I don’t think I saw the iconic photo that was on the front page of every newspaper and article about the bombing-a photo of a firefighter carrying a baby away from the wreckage. The baby did not survive. My daughter was five when this happened and her father and I talked at length about what to tell her. We wanted to tell her on an age appropriate level, which we did. Unfortunately, one her father’s coworkers starting spouting off with details to her and we ended up with trying to cope with her horror along with our own. I can’t fathom the disregard for human life that it takes for someone to do something like that. If I remember correctly, none of them ever expressed any remorse.
My dad served in the oklahoma National Guard from 1990 to 1999, and the OKC bombing happened April 19th, 1995.
my dad watch the ATF pick up the papers because there was an investigation on them so if anyone put anything in there pockets he was ordered to shoot to kill .
One story he told me about the okc bombing was he was in the slab, and imagine 2 piece of concrete wall on top of each other and feet and hands were sticking out of the end, when he lived the top concrete wall the hands stuck to the top piece wall and the feet stuck to the bottom piece of wall , the way it was means that the person that they found was folded in half by the floor and wall. And when my dad found the person he was listening to the song "dirt" by alice in chains and the part in the song where Layne Staley " I want you to scrape me from the walls is when he found the person
And other stories he told he was he was watching an ATF agent and the ATF agent look down and sighed and said "look away if you cant handle it" but my dad couldn't look way because he was ordered to watch him, but the ATF agent moved some rocks and pulled out a tricycle and on the right handle there was a little black hand and nothing else just a little black hand on the right handle of the tricycle
If you look up "okc bombing firefighter holding baby' the guy that is in that picture my dad grew up with and served in the military the firefighters name is Chris Fields
My dad still has nightmares about the bombing. Before the Slab was lifted my dad was giving vicks to dampen the smell and he put some in his nose, on his tongue, and under his nose and he could still smell it super strong. now anytime he smells vicks it smells like dead bloated wet bodys to him
One thing my dad said was really weird is that he said there was alot of royalty, Celebrities and politicians
When the bombing happened and my dad was sleeping at my aunts house on the couch 14 miles away and it woke him up and blow the windows out
My dad listened to the album "Dirt" by Alice in chains but he listened to dirt for 4 days straight at the bombing then the rest of the album.
Look up the song dirt and you can imagine what he saw
I had a limited exposure to this tragedy. I remember hearing it had happened, but more concrete information about it wasn’t known to me. I had just turned 15 a week before this occurred. So heartbreaking and maddening to hear all the planning behind it now. 😢
At the time this happened, my mother was a federal employee at the federal building in fort. Worth? Which was one of the ones that they said was targeted and I went. I worried about my mother every day. Going to work even with the security they had. And they must have had 5 or 6 bombing threats during that time and had to evacuate the building. Thing my mother has since retired, but it was quite an exciting time for all of us
If Tim McVey had actually gotten real ANFO, it wouldn't have been half a building,it would have been a whole city block.
Happy easter BP's
I remember seeing public memorial services for the children. They played the "I Love You" song that Barney (purple dinosaur) sang at the end of each show. It was about the saddest thing I've ever seen.
I love when you said in 1995 there was no way to look things up. That is a shocking statement. Libraries did, in fact, exist.
I feel like at least for me I retained the information I had to go look up manually in the library so much better also .
In the 90's I worked at a bookstore and there was a book that told how to make bombs. I found out when a teenager tried to buy it and the manager asked for ID. After that I hid the book under the metal shelves. I could have gotten in trouble but I didn't care. I found it frightening...
I was in the US Army stationed at Ft. Sill, OK when this happened. We spent a week helping clear debris. A period I'd rather not have memories of. Five years earlier, I was attached to the AZ National Guard in Kingman, AZ as their Supply Sgt. Timothy McVeigh was in our unit.
Wow. Thank you for your service and sacrifices.
What you have seen no one should ever have to.
did you serve with a soldier nicknamed Spider monkey? his first name is mike.
My friend was on medical staff who had to bring body bags to the bombing site. His wife felt the shock waves at home 10 miles away. They lost several friends who were in the building. They took me to the memorial years later, it was so upsetting. I was overwhelmed with emotions that I couldn't shake for days afterward.
My dad served in the oklahoma National Guard from 1990 to 1999, and the OKC bombing happened April 19th, 1995.
my dad watch the ATF pick up the papers because there was an investigation on them so if anyone put anything in there pockets he was ordered to shoot to kill .
One story he told me about the okc bombing was he was in the slab, and imagine 2 piece of concrete wall on top of each other and feet and hands were sticking out of the end, when he lived the top concrete wall the hands stuck to the top piece wall and the feet stuck to the bottom piece of wall , the way it was means that the person that they found was folded in half by the floor and wall. And when my dad found the person he was listening to the song "dirt" by alice in chains and the part in the song where Layne Staley " I want you to scrape me from the walls is when he found the person
And other stories he told he was he was watching an ATF agent and the ATF agent look down and sighed and said "look away if you cant handle it" but my dad couldn't look way because he was ordered to watch him, but the ATF agent moved some rocks and pulled out a tricycle and on the right handle there was a little black hand and nothing else just a little black hand on the right handle of the tricycle
If you look up "okc bombing firefighter holding baby' the guy that is in that picture my dad grew up with and served in the military the firefighters name is Chris Fields
and my dad went to prom with on of the victims
My dad still has nightmares about the bombing. Before the Slab was lifted my dad was giving vicks to dampen the smell and he put some in his nose, on his tongue, and under his nose and he could still smell it super strong. now anytime he smells vicks it smells like dead bloated wet bodys to him
One thing my dad said was really weird is that he said there was alot of royalty, Celebrities and politicians
When the bombing happened and my dad was sleeping at my aunts house on the couch 14 miles away and it woke him up and blow the windows out
My dad listened to the album "Dirt" by Alice in chains but he listened to dirt for 4 days straight at the bombing then the rest of the album.
Look up the song dirt and you can imagine what he saw
USAF 91-97. I was stationed at Tinker AFB (Just E of OKC) from 92-96. I was on leave the day it happened. Had a friend from my unit in the building when it happened.
The red haired lady toward the end of the video at the memorial lost her 2 kids in the bombing. So many heartbreaking stories. The bomb was felt in several small towns around OKC.
I lived on the 17th floor of the regency tower in 99-03 my balcony overlooked the memorial and I remember September 11th 2001 as hell was breaking out in NYC and DC standing there looking down at those chairs tears streaming down my face
Look up the iconic, pulitzer prize winning photo from that day.
19 children were killed.
My dad served in the oklahoma National Guard from 1990 to 1999, and the OKC bombing happened April 19th, 1995.
my dad watch the ATF pick up the papers because there was an investigation on them so if anyone put anything in there pockets he was ordered to shoot to kill .
One story he told me about the okc bombing was he was in the slab, and imagine 2 piece of concrete wall on top of each other and feet and hands were sticking out of the end, when he lived the top concrete wall the hands stuck to the top piece wall and the feet stuck to the bottom piece of wall , the way it was means that the person that they found was folded in half by the floor and wall. And when my dad found the person he was listening to the song "dirt" by alice in chains and the part in the song where Layne Staley " I want you to scrape me from the walls is when he found the person
And other stories he told he was he was watching an ATF agent and the ATF agent look down and sighed and said "look away if you cant handle it" but my dad couldn't look way because he was ordered to watch him, but the ATF agent moved some rocks and pulled out a tricycle and on the right handle there was a little black hand and nothing else just a little black hand on the right handle of the tricycle
If you look up "okc bombing firefighter holding baby' the guy that is in that picture my dad grew up with and served in the military the firefighters name is Chris Fields
My dad still has nightmares about the bombing. Before the Slab was lifted my dad was giving vicks to dampen the smell and he put some in his nose, on his tongue, and under his nose and he could still smell it super strong. now anytime he smells vicks it smells like dead bloated wet bodys to him
One thing my dad said was really weird is that he said there was alot of royalty, Celebrities and politicians
When the bombing happened and my dad was sleeping at my aunts house on the couch 14 miles away and it woke him up and blow the windows out
My dad listened to the album "Dirt" by Alice in chains but he listened to dirt for 4 days straight at the bombing then the rest of the album.
Look up the song dirt and you can imagine what he saw
Many haven't forgot it.
I felt this blast from 7 miles away in 7th grade gym class, we thought it was a jet from the local AFB breaking the sound barrier. I ended up serving in the Army with one of the OKC PDs first responders to this, it wore heavy on him a decade later.
I was 13 when that happened, and it was the first time I truly understood that evil people exist in this world.
Friend of mine investigated the bombing w ATF.. he honors the deceased every year.. it was so horrific .
The UA-cam channel POPO MEDIC has great videos on Ruby Ridge "The FBI & ATF Siege of Ruby Ridge..." and on Waco "The ATF Battle & Cult of Waco…". His videos on them is the best I've seen and I highly recommend them.
I was in bed on my day off 200km north of OKC and I heard and felt the shock wave, It didn't rock my house but I felt the house shutter
Tim McVeigh went thru special forces training after his assignment in Germany.. they teach the basics of bombs etc
I was a t work 12 miles away when the Murrah building was destroyed. It shook the building even that far away. My best friends wife was working in an office a block away from the building and had just gotten under her desk to recover something she had dropped, when the ceiling caved in. If she had not been under the desk she would most likely have died. The explosion was so loud, she actually could not hear it.
My dad served in the oklahoma National Guard from 1990 to 1999, and the OKC bombing happened April 19th, 1995.
my dad watch the ATF pick up the papers because there was an investigation on them so if anyone put anything in there pockets he was ordered to shoot to kill .
One story he told me about the okc bombing was he was in the slab, and imagine 2 piece of concrete wall on top of each other and feet and hands were sticking out of the end, when he lived the top concrete wall the hands stuck to the top piece wall and the feet stuck to the bottom piece of wall , the way it was means that the person that they found was folded in half by the floor and wall. And when my dad found the person he was listening to the song "dirt" by alice in chains and the part in the song where Layne Staley " I want you to scrape me from the walls is when he found the person
And other stories he told he was he was watching an ATF agent and the ATF agent look down and sighed and said "look away if you cant handle it" but my dad couldn't look way because he was ordered to watch him, but the ATF agent moved some rocks and pulled out a tricycle and on the right handle there was a little black hand and nothing else just a little black hand on the right handle of the tricycle
If you look up "okc bombing firefighter holding baby' the guy that is in that picture my dad grew up with and served in the military the firefighters name is Chris Fields
My dad still has nightmares about the bombing. Before the Slab was lifted my dad was giving vicks to dampen the smell and he put some in his nose, on his tongue, and under his nose and he could still smell it super strong. now anytime he smells vicks it smells like dead bloated wet bodys to him
One thing my dad said was really weird is that he said there was alot of royalty, Celebrities and politicians
When the bombing happened and my dad was sleeping at my aunts house on the couch 14 miles away and it woke him up and blow the windows out
My dad listened to the album "Dirt" by Alice in chains but he listened to dirt for 4 days straight at the bombing then the rest of the album.
Look up the song dirt and you can imagine what he saw
I was only a toddler living in OKC when this happened. We were looking at an apartment not far from the blast site. So glad we didn't. Such a horrible day.
I was hospitalized in Texas when this happened, and my mother worked for the Department of Agriculture in Oklahoma City. I panicked, and it took hours for the hospital to help me get hold of my mother, as the telephone lines were jammed with so many people trying to get through. Fortunately, turned out since she worked for the state Department of Agriculture, not in the federal building. But she did know a number of the people in the federal building, since she did frequently work with them. And she could feel the explosion from the building she worked in.
You should find the documentary:A Noble Lie ;
Eye opening
All that information about construction and logistics was available and provided by the US Govt to various rebel groups in south and central america, africa, the middle east, the balkans, and southeast asia. Publicly available TM (Training Manuals) and FM (Field Manuals) were also available under FOIA to US Citizens.
I remember this day very well. I worked less then two miles away and we felt the explosion a good deal. One of my co-workers lost her mom in the bombing. It was a very sad sad day!
I actually was born and raised in OKC, and still live 10 minutes from the site. My dad is a retired fire chief, and actually worked this tragedy. Very sad day for us Okies!
But the same types are MAGA. Why?
@@blackblake3658 please tell us all what MAGA has to do with the OKC bombing from 1999??? Please stay on topic!!
@@blackblake3658 and since you brought it up, still don't know why, but yes of course it's TRUMP 2024!!!! MAGA STRONG AND PROUD!!!
You should have done Waco first, as that was McVeigh's motive. He saw Koresh and his followers burn in the fire.
I was at our local court house doing jury duty. When the bombing occured we hurried out of the court house to safety. Law enforcement wasn't sure if our bldg was at risk.
I first went to England in 1982 and when I told a Brit I was from Oklahoma they would say "I liked the movie." That changed after the bombing.
How naive the world was back. This tragic incident was at the time the worst terrorist attack in US soil. Many people thought an attack this big were ever happened again in US, little we know a decade later, 9/11 would happened. The worst terrorist in modern history. A curious fact, McFaye, the main suspect behind the attack was executed by lethal injection a month before 9/11. Crazy!
The part that hurt Oklahomans even more than just the explosion was the fact that Oklahoma had nothing to do with either Ruby Ridge NOR Waco which both happened in other states located hundreds of miles away.
Everyone killed was an innocent victim and not a single person killed had anything to do with why those men were pissed off.
I was a University intern in a government department office that day. It was the first time I experienced hatred from people of one State, directed at me from another State.
Just come across your video reaction, this very day we lived in another large city in Oklahoma called Tulsa which is around a 100 miles from OKC. My wife was up early and talking with her aunt that lived 5 miles South of the Metro, while my wife was in conversation with her aunt all of her windows on the North side and many on the South was blown out from the Shock wave, my wife immediately turned on the T.V. and woke me up and we viewed this from OKC local news station. Very horrific, it is crazy with one person can do with so much, what's the interview before they put him to death and he has so much hate it's too crazy cuz he said even the children deserve to die. God Bless
This was one of the worst events in my lifetime. There are no words to characterize it accurately and fully.
Fun fact: in the US, some states allow for a last meal for those on death row, where the prisoner sentenced to die can request something special to eat before their execution. Timothy’s final meal was two pints of mint chocolate chip ice cream. It is widely disputed if he should’ve gotten a final meal, as he a domestic terrorists, not a common death row candidate.
Im glad your covering this, my mother was supposed to be there but had gotten sick the night prior
I live in Cushing Ok about 65 miles from the Murrah building,. the explosion sounded like Thunder in the distance .. we could hear it from that distance
McVeigh could have learned bomb making and disassembling explosives in the Army. My husband was a Marine in Vietnam and told me he knew how to make a bomb. We were casually talking at my parents house and somehow the subject came up, and he said to me that in fact he could make it with materials already found around the house!
I remember watching the news coverage of this in my high school English class. When it was just TV's in the classroom.
There was the "Anarchist Cookbook" that was used back then, but yes the detail, and therefore cruelty, he took into consideration was absolutely shocking.
My mum would have been in OKC attending a morning meeting in that building had I not woken up the day before violently sick and she had to take a couple days off to take care of me. My older brother was living in the City and would drive to work along that road, at that time. He had a flat tire and was running late that day. My family got very lucky.
I saw a documentary about 9/11 that said the NYC FBI office had to evacuate because they found a Ryder truck like the one used in this bombing and they were afraid it was a truck bomb.
They closed all the federal offices, I was in the Federal courthouse and where the US Marshals closed the building up, it was searched with swat and dogs.
I live 2 mi from where this happened it cracks some of the windows in my house
A Gulf War veteran, McVeigh became radicalized by anti-government beliefs. He sought revenge against the United States federal government for the 1993 Waco siege 76 Branch Davidians, including 25 children, as well as the 1992 Ruby Ridge incident. McVeigh expressed particular disapproval of federal agencies such as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for their handling of issues regarding private citizens. McVeigh received several service awards, including the Bronze Star Medal National Defence Service Medal, Southwest Asia Service Medal, Army Service Ribbon, and the Kuwaiti Liberation Medal. McVeigh claimed that the bombing was revenge against the government for the sieges at Waco and Ruby Ridge. The Army had taught McVeigh that Collateral Damage was acceptable and tolerated they were the 168 people, including 19 children. Peace out.
I recommend you react to the unabomber.
I wasn’t born yet but my grandmother worked at a daycare down the street. She heard and felt the blast.
For anyone who doesn't know what the Battles of Lexington and Concord were they kicked off the start of the American Revolutionary War on April 19, 1775.
The one and only day of kindergarten I remember. My elementary was right down the road and I happened to be looking out the window in the direction of the Murrah building when the bomb went off.
If people in WACO or Ruby Ridge cops would have stormed those places before it got out of hand.
Guy Fawkes esque no?
Certainly a sad day. One sidebar piece of trivia is the damaged bldg. was allowed to be used in the first X Files movie in 1998.
I thought they filmed it in Dallas?
@@b.slocumb7763 Hi, The story line was in and around Dallas, but the physical sets were mostly in and around LA. The building they were using pre-explosion was the LA Center Studios in downtown LA. Trying to find my old reference, but the post explosion was either a news report film or maybe they CG'd the OKC building.😊
I was living in OKC about 90 blocks north of the Murrah building and heard the explosion that day.
You just heard a small part of the story. There is a gigantic rabbit hole in which you can venture if you're willing. I've no idea what, if any, of the conspiracies are true, but there are so many holes in the official story that certainly leaves one wondering.
Merrick Garland was the Fed Prosecuter of McVeigh-Nichols trial..... that should say to you right away that Fed Coverup of real bombers & falsified evidence in trial..... Why did ALL FBI, ATF, & DOJ employees not go to work that day......... of the nearly 500 employees who worked there the morning of the bombing, those that never came to work that day were Clinton's FBI, ATF, & DOJ employees...
My dad served in the oklahoma National Guard from 1990 to 1999, and the OKC bombing happened April 19th, 1995.
my dad watch the ATF pick up the papers because there was an investigation on them so if anyone put anything in there pockets he was ordered to shoot to kill .
One story he told me about the okc bombing was he was in the slab, and imagine 2 piece of concrete wall on top of each other and feet and hands were sticking out of the end, when he lived the top concrete wall the hands stuck to the top piece wall and the feet stuck to the bottom piece of wall , the way it was means that the person that they found was folded in half by the floor and wall. And when my dad found the person he was listening to the song "dirt" by alice in chains and the part in the song where Layne Staley " I want you to scrape me from the walls" is when he found the person
And other stories he told he was he was watching an ATF agent and the ATF agent look down and sighed and said "look away if you cant handle it" but my dad couldn't look way because he was ordered to watch him, but the ATF agent moved some rocks and pulled out a tricycle and on the right handle there was a little black hand and nothing else just a little black hand on the right handle of the tricycle
If you look up "okc bombing firefighter holding baby' the guy that is in that picture my dad grew up with and served in the military the firefighters name is Chris Fields
My dad still has nightmares about the bombing. Before the Slab was lifted my dad was giving vicks to dampen the smell and he put some in his nose, on his tongue, and under his nose and he could still smell it super strong. now anytime he smells vicks it smells like dead bloated wet bodys to him
One thing my dad said was really weird is that he said there was alot of royalty, Celebrities and politicians
my dad denied jesse jackson entry because he didnt have the right color dot.
When the bombing happened and my dad was sleeping at my aunts house on the couch 14 miles away and it woke him up and blow the windows out
My dad listened to the album "Dirt" by Alice in chains but he listened to dirt for 4 days straight at the bombing then the rest of the album.
Look up the song dirt and you can imagine what he saw
This made me cry remembering that day.
Infamously, this knowledge was gained from a book called something like “The Anarchists Cookbook”
The Anarchist's Cookbook teaches you all kinds of such things. Don't know if it was referenced for this, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was.
We did have libraries.
I was on my way to the moore health department when the bomb went off and i actually felt it.. that is the day i found out inwas pregnant with my now 28 year old daughter. My mother in law at the time was an emergency room nurse and was downtown helping with the injured and deceased. My sister lost her beat friend in the blast. She was the last one oulled out of the building.. thanks for this reaction guys. One a horrible day in Oklahoma but you should see the memorial and the museum they jave put up on the grounds...
If you lived in Oklahoma during this time you for sure will always remember this day. We were in school and it sounded like someone kicked in a window or a sonic boom. We went to school roughly 35 miles to the west of the building. It affected many. My grandmother was in the journal records building the buidling across the street essentially. "We will never forget "
I remember it well.....
I was 11 years old when this happened and my family lived between 50-65 miles away. My mom was at home when this happened, It was a big enough blast that my parents home shook from the blast.
When the narrator said early on that, "they met at Fort Benning", that meant that they were in the US Army. That's where they learned about explosives and how to improvise when needed.
I was in school when this happened, about 60 miles away. When it went off, we didnt hear it of course, but we noticed the windows shaking. We all thought it was a small earthquake. Thats how powerful the explosion was. When news got out, the rest of the school day was just watching the news and being horrified
I lived nearby and my house rocked. It was a horrible strange time for some time after this.
My first husband was parked in the post office parking lot right next to the street catty corner from the Murrah building. He had just left the Murrah building from delivering mail and had gone around the block to go back to the building due to a missed package to be delivered. He had to pee all the sudden so he pulled into the PO parking lot and had his hand on the handle getting ready to open the door when it went off. He said when he came to, he had been spun around and blown into the back of his mail truck. Everything from this point I can't say on here as it might get flagged for some asinine reason, as it has some mild gory details. Unfortunately his mind did not recuperate after that.
His name is on the survivor wall, however he is no longer alive. That was a day that changed our lives forever.
2 wrongs and a lot of dead.
I believe that "footage" of them preparing the truck was actually a reenactment done for a documentary.
I was about 10 blocks straight in front of it standing on the top edges of my bucket, not advised, on my bucket truck, while a crane lifted 4 huge parking lot lights i had mounted and bolted together. My truck wouldnt go high enough so i had few other options. I knew nothing until the fiberglass bucket i was standing on and myself were blasted with air and shaken to the core. Luckly i pulled my arms and legs in just in time to fall inside the bucket. When i finally peeked over the edge of the bucket i could see the huge dust cloud and fire to the south of me. When the crane operators asked what happened. My reply was ; im not exactly sure but there's some dead people that direction. I wish id said something cooler and not so direct but it is what it is. That evening I delivered our generators and light plants that we had on hand, for the workers looking for people that might still be alive.
Raiding Ruby Ridge was wrong,but taking down the federal building was wrong ,too.Two wrongs don't make a right.
It’s a great memorial and museum to visit. The memorial site just has this aura of profound silence. I’ve only ever felt it there and also at the 9/11 memorial.