Exactly 30 years ago today as people were settling into work just minutes after 9:00 AM in downtown Oklahoma City, an unknown man parked his rented box truck just outside the building on N.W. 5th Street.
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No one paid attention as he calmly got out of the truck and walked down the street to a getaway car he'd parked nearby. Moments later, the truck exploded, ripping through his target building: The Murrah Federal Building.
Seconds later, a 168 people lost their lives, including 19 children in the building's childcare center, and 684 others injured. The man in the truck was later identified as Timothy McVeigh, and now there is a movie telling the story of the OKC Bombing on April 19, 1995: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32141536/
No, I haven't seen that one yet but I remember when all that happened in 1996. I'll add it to my backlog now!
I also need to watch the McVeigh movie, but I used to live in OKC and have visited the memorial (first photo) many times, so McVeigh is also a movie I want to cover on my podcast.
Yeah, he packed it full of explosives specifically for mass casualties. Not sure if you're aware of this, but today's date was also specifically chosen by McVeigh because two years earlier, April 19, 1993, was the tragic loss of life at the end of the Waco siege.
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I also need to watch the McVeigh movie, but I used to live in OKC and have visited the memorial (first photo) many times, so McVeigh is also a movie I want to cover on my podcast.