Where were you then: The April 19, 1995 Oklahoma City bombing

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18-04-2025

The Brief
Saturday, April 19, is the 30th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing.
A bomb exploded outside a federal building downtown, killing 168 people, including 19 children.
The man convicted, Timothy McVeigh, was executed in 2001, and an accomplice, Terry Nichols, is serving several life sentences.
This year marks 30 years since the Oklahoma City Bombing.
The backstory
On April 19, 1995, a bomb exploded from inside a parked car that destroyed a third of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City.
Hundreds of people were injured, and 168 people were killed – including 19 children.
Timeline
A little more than two years later, Timothy McVeigh was found guilty on all counts and convicted of the bombing on June 2, 1997.
Later that year, accomplice Terry Nichols was convicted in December of 1997 in federal trial of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction but acquitted of two counts directly blaming him for the attack.
On June 11, 2001, McVeigh was executed.
Nichols is currently serving several life sentences.
Dig deeper
McVeigh and Nichols met in the U.S. Army and were veterans of the Gulf War. Their attack was motivated by radical political ideology and was reportedly revenge on the federal government for the 1993 Waco siege and the 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff.
Big picture view
To this day, the bombing is still the deadliest act of homegrown terrorism in the United States.
The Source
Information in this article was taken from a series of historical accounts, including the FBI, the Oklahoma Historical Society and several local Oklahoma news reports. This story was reported from Detroit.