An Event In History Oklahoma City Bombing

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An Event In HistoryOklahoma City Bombing

• By Laura Jordan
• October 3, 2005

About the Building Who was Involved The
Reasons The Consequences Bibliography More
Information Wrap Up Picture Bibliography
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The Murrah Federal Building

• The Oklahoma Cit Bombing was one of the worst
  disasters on U.S. soil. Parents dropped their
  kids off at the Murrah Federal Building for day
  care and never even thought about what would
  happen. The Murrah Federal building was nine
  stories and was the offices of the Secret
  Service, D.E.A (Drug Enforcement Agency), the
  Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and
  Explosives (ATF), and day care for the people
  working there and employees of other companies.
  Men, women, and children were lost and most were
  not found. In this essay I will show you just how
  difficult life was to know this preventable act
  was performed.

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• Twenty-seven year old Timothy McVeigh rented a
  Ryder rental truck with plans to bomb the Murrah
  Building. Timothy McVeigh was a former member of
  the U.S. army and was a very devoted American, or
  so it seemed. McVeighs army friend, Terry
  Nichols was said to have had a major part in the
  bombing as well. On April 19, 1995 at around 900
  am, people dropped off their kids at the Murrah
  Federal Building in down town Oklahoma. Three
  minutes later, the Ryder truck Timothy McVeigh
  rented, exploded blew the nine story building in
  half.

Who was involved?
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What were the reasons?

• People dont exactly know the reasons for the
  Oklahoma City Bombing. He said to have given
  explanations no one believed. Most people say in
  the end when he was executed, he was full of
  remorse and denied the world. This is hard for
  people to believe nothing else pushed him to such
  a hateful act, because of his active involvement
  in the army. There is just no other plausible
  explanation.

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Consequences of the bombing

• The consequences of this event were terrible.
  With in minutes, 168 people were dead, 19 of them
  children. Hundreds of people were injured in what
  was said to be one of the worst terrorist attacks
  on American soil. Tim McVeigh was pulled over on
  the Oklahoma Highway 90 minutes after the
  explosion for driving without a license. He was
  later arrested. Right before being released, he
  was recognized as a bombing suspect and was
  charged with the bombing. When police figured
  McVeigh and Terry Nichols were army friends, they
  questioned Nichols and found he too was a bomber.
  McVeigh was charged with the death sentence and
  for 11 murder charges.

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• You have heard who was involved, the reasons for
  the bombing, when and where it occurred, and the
  devastating consequences. No I will tell you some
  relevant information. It took 44 days to fro the
  FBI to convince the car rental agency that one of
  their customers was Timothy McVeigh. People say
  that Tim McVeigh did not really die when he was
  executed and was sent to South America. He was
  given a new identity where no one knows who he
  is. Timothy McVeigh could be alive or dead but
  the tragedy of the Oklahoma City Bombing lives
  on.

More Information
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Wrap Up

• Now you know about the Oklahoma City bombing and
  what was said to have happened. Although those
  men and women are gone, we remember them. The
  families and the friends of the victims were
  heart broken but had many stories to tell.
  Stories are also told at the memorial and museum
  of the bombing. We have caught the bad guys and
  almost completely solved the case. Regardless, we
  will never forget the Murrah Federal Building and
  victims, before, and after the tragedy.

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Bibliography

• CNN Interactive, September 29 updated unknown
• http//www.cnn.com/US/OKC/
• What Really Happened, September 29 updated
  unknown
• http//www.whatreallyhappened.com/RA
• CHO/POLITICS/OK/ok.html

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Picture Bibliography

• (Ruins of Building 1) September 29 updated
  unknown
• http//dart2.arc.nasa.gov/Deployments/OklahomaCity
  Bombing1995/images/Oklahoma-12a.jpg
• (Ruins of Building 2) September 29 updated
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• http//author.senescence.info/thoughts/oklahoma.jp
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• (Fire fighter and Baby) http//www.msu.edu/dag
  gy/cop/images/00000049.gif
• (Tim McVeigh) September 30 updated unknown
• http//cshink.com/images/mcveigh.jpg
• (Memorial Chairs) October 3 updated unknown
• http//news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40014000/jpg/_4
  0014853_memorial_238.jpg
• (Terry Nichols) October 3 updated
  unknown http//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0
  /09/Nichols2.jpg
• (Fire Fighters and Fire) October 3 updated
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• Clip Art