At 9.02 a.m. explosions tore through the Alfred P Murrah building in downtown Oklahoma City. A Noble Lie: Oklahoma City 1995, Youtube 2011
The first questions were directed at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms which had launched the raid on the Branch Dividians. The Oklahoma City office for the ATF was located in the Murrah building and was the supposed target of the attack yet no agents were killed or seriously wounded. Was the ATF office empty that morning? ibid.
Another ATF agent admitted under oath that one suspect Andy Strassmier was reported to make ‘threats to blow up federal buildings’. ibid.
‘I haven’t stopped asking questions ‘cause I know that we haven’t been told the truth … Not one person saw him [Timothy McVeigh] by himself.’ ibid. Jannie Coverdale, victim’s family member
All these reports indicate that more than one Ryder truck was involved in the bombing and more people than the government is letting on. ibid.
The FBI announced that they had withheld thousands of pages of documents that could have influenced his trial which led to a month-long stay of execution. ibid.
The problems with the failed columns at the Murrah building is that at that distance the air blast from an ANFO bomb would have been ten times less powerful than what was needed to dissolve the concrete and cut the rebar. ibid.
The Murrah federal building was not destroyed by one sole truck bomb … detonation of explosives placed at four key junctures. ibid.
The Oklahoma highway patrol reported that another explosive device was found; the Oklahoma City fire department confirmed that. ibid.
Always the good soldier McVeigh revealed only one name in his chain of command - Larry Potts, assistant director of the FBI and the lead agent on the Ruby Ridge catastrophe in 1992. ibid.
‘A sting operation gone wrong.’ ibid.
Northern Idaho: it’s a remote place, it’s a predominantly white place and it’s the kind of place where everyone minds their business. In the 1980s a lot of extremist groups found sanctuary there. One of those groups was the Aryan Nations. Oklahoma City, PBS 2017
One visitor to the Aryan Nations compound was an Army veteran named Randy Weaver … On the day of the [Ruby Ridge] shooting the marshals had a six man team … 14-year-old Sammy Weaver’s dead, the dog’s dead and so is federal marshal William Degan killed on the property of a White Separatist. ibid.
‘They start screaming at us, Get out of this building; we have just found another device.’ ibid. rozzer
‘The Branch Davidians were not White Supremacists. But now a broader section of the far right sees itself at Waco and says, We’re being suppressed for our beliefs and our guns.’ ibid.
One of those drawn to Waco was a 24-year-old Army veteran named Timothy McVeigh. ibid.
McVeigh recruited two Army buddies to help him build a bomb. ibid.
It was an act of cowardice and it was evil. Days that Shaped America s1e3: Oklahoma City Bombing, Clinton, History 2018
It felt like my head was exploding, everything went black, and I felt this powerful rushing sensation like I was falling – and I was falling, I was falling three floors. ibid. Amy Downs, survivor
An attack on innocent children and defenceless citizens. ibid. Clinton
Oklahoma City, April 19th 1995 9:02 a.m.: ‘Holy Cow! About a third of the building has been blown away!’ In Defence Of: Timothy McVeigh, news report, Sky Crime 2019
Over 500 people were already in the building and 35-40 children were in a day-care centre on the second floor. ibid.