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The Ryder Truck at 9:02: McVeigh, the Murrah Building, and What Survived
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At 9:02 AM on April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh's bomb tore open the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people — nineteen of them children in a second-floor daycare. This episode lives inside the blast radius and what came after: the grief that didn't end, and the ideology that didn't either.
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At nine oh two in the morning on April nineteenth, nineteen ninety-five, a Ryder truck detonated outside a federal building in Oklahoma City and changed the country in ways that still haven't fully resolved. One hundred and sixty-eight people died.
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