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Elohim City, Waco, and the Network Behind McVeigh's Bomb
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Timothy McVeigh didn't build the Oklahoma City bombing in isolation — he moved through a world where federal tyranny was community currency. This chapter traces the Elohim City connection, the Waco template, and the 168 lives destroyed on April 19, 1995.
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The man behind the wheel of that Ryder truck had been planning this for two years. Almost to the hour.
Timothy McVeigh was twenty-six years old. A Gulf War veteran.
This is where the episode's central question lives. Elohim City.
The Murrah building housed dozens of federal agencies. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
The Waco siege has been covered in earlier episodes in this series, but it's worth being direct about what it became after April nineteenth, nineteen ninety-five. Before the bombing, Waco was a federal law enforcement controversy.
McVeigh's trial moved quickly by federal standards. He was convicted on all counts in June nineteen ninety-seven.
Timothy McVeigh was executed on June eleventh, two thousand and one. Ninety days before September eleventh.
The Oklahoma City bombing remained the deadliest domestic terror attack in American history until September two thousand and one. That record stood for six years.
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