The Oklahoma City Bombing: 1995 · 8 Oct 2026 · 11 min

168 Dead, Nineteen Children: The Morning McVeigh Chose to Be Understood

At 9:02 AM on April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a truck bomb at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building — killing 168 people, including nineteen children — and wore his motive on his chest. This episode traces the shirt, the bomb, the day care on the second floor, and the blueprint for domestic terrorism that outlasted McVeigh himself.

The Oklahoma City Bombing: 1995
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168 Dead, Nineteen Children: The Morning McVeigh Chose to Be Understood

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Nine-oh-two AM. April nineteenth, nineteen ninety-five.

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