L. P. Hartley

Oklahoma City Bombing: April 19, 1995 The morning of April 19th, 1995 changed the United States forever. On that morning, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was attacked and destroyed by a homegrown terrorist. This event shook the US and forced the country to start thinking in terms of potential terror events, specifically ones carried out by US citizens. Two years earlier the World Trade Center was attacked by outsiders and caused America to begin to think about foreign…

He believed the government was being cruel to the citizens of America, and believed they should be punished. His form of punishment was loading a rented Ryder truck with upwards of 5000 pounds of ammonium nitrate. The bomb detonated near the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building, killing 168 people, multiple of which were children, and injuring over 600 more. McVeigh later admitted he did not know that there were children present in the building, and that he would have picked a different target if…

waiting for me to discuss the next item that I planned to mention. I could hear the clicking, clattering, and chattering of the employees as they prepared for the day ahead. I loved my job as the head of the Federal Employees Credit Union at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and had looked forward…

On April 19, 1995, a mom took her son, Tevin, to the day-care center at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building before heading to work. As she was leaving, her son cried for her, but she had to go anyway. One of Tevin’s friends Elijah was there to keep him company instead (Cole 26). “An hour later, the bomb exploded, and both children were killed” (Cole 26). Not only were the lives of those two innocent little boys taken, but one hundred and sixty-six more were lost on that tragic day as well…

When Timothy McVeigh attacked Oklahoma City Federal building on April 19th 1995, the United States saw 168 people killed and saw more than 608 people injured. The blast was so strong that it destroyed or damaged more than 300 buildings in a 16 block radius. McVeigh a war veteran of Desert Storm what could make a war veteran want to attack a federal building killing incident men, woman, and children. According to. Explains some do the events that led to McVeigh attacking Oklahoma City " McVeigh…

# Religion Assessment ## Oklahoma City Bombing On April 19, 1995, in Oklahoma City USA, a truck bomb detonated outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Government Building. It left 168 people dead, and hundreds more injured. The truck bomb was detonated by anti-government militants Timothy McVeigh, who was executed for his crimes in 2001 and Terry Nichols, who received life in prison. ### Possible Big Questions - Is the death penalty OK? - Why does God let us suffer? - What forces…

At 9:02Am on April 19th, 1995 the bombing of the Oklahoma city Alfred p. murrah federal building exploded. The building was loacted underneath the America’s kids daycare center. The left wall of the Murrah building was the first to come down along with the top floors. The aftermath of the explosion left a 30ft wide, 8ft deep crater in the street that was covered by the debris of the building. ( Smith, 2015) During the time of the explosion McVeigh was in the building parking lot. He Feld scene…

terrorist attack was the worst terrorist attack to happen before 9/11. The truck was packed with 4,800-pounds of explosives which consisted of diesel-fuel and fertilizer (ammonium nitrate). The bomb was detonated on April 19, 1995 just outside Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City shortly after 9am (Nacos, 2016). This catastrophic blast killed one hundred sixty-eight people and injured hundreds more (Nacos, 2016). Among all those victims, nineteen children attended a…

On the morning of April 19, 1995 there was a blast that would change the United States forever. A man by the name of Timothy Mcveigh drove a Ryder moving truck up to the Murrah building in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and detonated a bomb from inside the truck.He was reasonable for killing nearly One hundred- seventy people and injuring over five- hundred more people. Those nearly one hundred seventy people included nineteen children that were killed in a day care on the second floor.…

The Oklahoma City Bombing happened on April 18, 1995, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing, it happened at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. In this attack there was a total of 168 deaths, 19 were children that were in the day-care center that the building had, and more than 500 people were injured. The bomb was made with ammonium nitrate and fuel oil. This was the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil until September 11, 2001. When the bombing…