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    a huge impact, many charges, lots of injuries. When Timothy McVeigh bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, it became a national tragedy that American people will never forget. The Oklahoma City Bombing About the bomb. People huddle around the TV checking on updates, while others rush to the horrifying scene to find people or help pick up. Morning April 19, 1995 in Oklahoma City, the Alfred P. Murrah Building was obliterated. A bomb made out of tons of explosives exploded,…

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    At 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995 a bomb went off that changed the world forever. The Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City had been bombed in a terrorist attack. The Oklahoma City bombing affected America in numerous ways, including in business, the lives of the victims, and America’s Image. Timothy McVeigh, a former military man, was the one behind this attack. McVeigh earned many medals while serving in the Persian Gulf War, but after not being admitted into the Special Forces program he…

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    Oklahoma City Bombing It was an early morning in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. People arriving to work and people still on there way. At 9:02 a.m on April 19, 1995, that all changed very quickly. A rental truck packed with explosives detonated in front of the nine-story Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. The explosion was so powerful it blew off the north side of the wall. 911 was flooded with call. Emergency responders responded very quickly. They arrived on scene to…

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    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…

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    On April 19, 1995 the United States’ a devastating terrorist attack occurred in Oklahoma City killing 168 people and injuring 650 more (History.com Staff, 2009). The explosion at the Alfred P. Murrah federal building was so powerful that a third of building was completely reduced to rubble and three hundred buildings nearby were damaged or destroyed (FBI, n.d.). Consequently, Americans immediately suspected this attack was attributed to Middle Eastern terrorists due to the recent World Trade…

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    # 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…

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    The Oklahoma City bombing was a terrorist attack that was carried out by Timothy McVeigh along with two co-conspirators. Timothy McVeigh was born on April 23, 1968, in Pendleton, New York. McVeigh lived with both his parents until their divorce in 1978, after their divorce he mainly lived with his father during his school years. McVeigh 's nickname was "Noodle", he was a scrawny, nonathletic loner which left him a target for neighborhood bullies (Linder 2006). He began to develop an interest in…

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    com staff). Outsidethe Alfred P. Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City, an explosion left 168 innocent men,women, and children dead and more than 500 injured (history.com staff). This explosion was atruck-bomb set off by a man known as Timothy McVeigh and his co-conspirator, Terry Nichols(history.com staff). According…

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    didn’t have those moments of weakness, we wouldn’t be able to enjoy the good nearly as much,” said Rebecca Denny in 2011 (Truesdell). On April 19, 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was bombed by Anti-Government militant Timothy McVeigh and Co-Conspirator Terry Nichols. The Oklahoma City Bombing was known as the most threatening terrorist attacks to happen in the United States until six years later in 2001 when 9/11 took place in New York City, New York. One of the…

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    The Oklahoma City Bombing happened on April 19, 1995. This 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,…

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