The documentary Oklahoma City was about the 1995 Oklahoma City truck bombing conducted mostly alone, by a white anti-government Christian terrorist name Timothy Mcveigh. This documentary shows all of the people and events that lead up to this one man carrying out the attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building, taking 168 lives and injuring 680 more. It shows how multiple out of state racist movements, government missions, and people arrests influenced a few people to do something so terrible to the U.S., taking innocent lives. This documentary looks at more than just the bombing itself it looks at the views of people in that time that in one way or another contributed to the massive bombing.
Timothy (Tim) Mcveigh was a person who was …show more content…
This is one of the most import scenes in the documentary because it helps us understand the sheer sadness that this one man caused so many people. It helps us realizes the momentous impact this bombing made on the United States of America. The other scene in this movie that was so important was when they told you about Timothy Mcveigh and what kind of cruel-hearted, sociopathic, evil man that he was. It helps us truly understand what kind of monster could brutally murder eleven innocent children in a daycare. It shows how a simple man who once fought for a country could listen to the simple words of white racists and Christian radicals and be influenced into doing an unspeakable …show more content…
Even though these videos are older, they still give a very good image of the damaged building and injured people. Some news broadcasts made it to the scene within five minutes of the explosion as one helicopter was already in the air, the documentary showed a high angle of the ⅔ of the building left standing. There are also videos of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas and David Koresh’s cult there. These videos gave the audience a sense of how these people like Koresh and Mcveigh were, the cold blooded killers they were. Most of the photos and videos from Waco are from body cameras home video recorders, and cameras so they were all hand-held shots. The videos also gave the exact sound of what you would hear if you were in Waco, Texas or in Oklahoma City. Some of the sounds give chills down the spine when we listen to them. That is the feeling viewers would have gotten as they watched the news that day. The writers seemed to want us to feel as if we were there; they want us to capture the moments and get the full understanding of what really caused this catastrophic
Timothy (Tim) Mcveigh was a person who was …show more content…
This is one of the most import scenes in the documentary because it helps us understand the sheer sadness that this one man caused so many people. It helps us realizes the momentous impact this bombing made on the United States of America. The other scene in this movie that was so important was when they told you about Timothy Mcveigh and what kind of cruel-hearted, sociopathic, evil man that he was. It helps us truly understand what kind of monster could brutally murder eleven innocent children in a daycare. It shows how a simple man who once fought for a country could listen to the simple words of white racists and Christian radicals and be influenced into doing an unspeakable …show more content…
Even though these videos are older, they still give a very good image of the damaged building and injured people. Some news broadcasts made it to the scene within five minutes of the explosion as one helicopter was already in the air, the documentary showed a high angle of the ⅔ of the building left standing. There are also videos of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas and David Koresh’s cult there. These videos gave the audience a sense of how these people like Koresh and Mcveigh were, the cold blooded killers they were. Most of the photos and videos from Waco are from body cameras home video recorders, and cameras so they were all hand-held shots. The videos also gave the exact sound of what you would hear if you were in Waco, Texas or in Oklahoma City. Some of the sounds give chills down the spine when we listen to them. That is the feeling viewers would have gotten as they watched the news that day. The writers seemed to want us to feel as if we were there; they want us to capture the moments and get the full understanding of what really caused this catastrophic