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

Waco's Shadow: The Date, the Truck, and 168 Dead

On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh parked a Ryder truck outside the Oklahoma City federal building and killed 168 people — nineteen of them children in a second-floor daycare. This episode traces the ideology, the planning, and the human cost that echoes thirty years later.

The Oklahoma City Bombing: 1995
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Waco's Shadow: The Date, the Truck, and 168 Dead

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At nine oh two in the morning, the north face of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building ceased to exist.

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