Episode
The Day that Changed America: The Oklahoma City Bombing
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- Mysteries and Histories
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- Aug 19, 2026
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Summary
At 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, a rented Ryder truck packed with explosives detonated outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The blast destroyed much of the building, killed 168 people, including 19 children in a daycare centre and injured hundreds more. The bomber was Timothy McVeigh, a former Army soldier whose anti-government extremism had hardened into violence. He was stopped on a weapons charge less than 90 minutes after the bombing, and investigators quickly connected him to the truck and the attack. McVeigh was convicted in 1997 and executed in 2001; his co-conspirator, Terry Nichols, received life in prison. For America, Oklahoma City was a brutal awakening. It showed that mass-casualty terrorism could come not from abroad, but from within and it left a city, hundreds of survivors, and the families of 168 victims carrying the consequences forever.