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Nineteen Children, One Truck, One Date: The Anatomy of the Bombing
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At 9:02 AM on April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a Ryder truck outside the Murrah Federal Building — killing 168 people, nineteen of them children dropped off at daycare that same morning. This episode traces the ideology, the planning, and the human cost of America's deadliest act of domestic terrorism.
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At nine oh two AM on April nineteenth, nineteen ninety-five, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City ceased to exist as a place where people went to work.
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