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Oklahoma City bombing, terrorist attack in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S., on April 19, 1995, in which a massive homemade bomb composed of more than two tonnes of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and fuel oil concealed in a rental truck exploded, heavily damaging the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
Dec 16, 2009 · The Oklahoma City bombing occurred when a truck packed with explosives was detonated on April 19, 1995, outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing...
The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, on April 19, 1995, the second anniversary of the end to the Waco siege.
Apr 18, 2020 · On 19 April 1995, a US army veteran parked a rental truck packed full of explosives outside a federal office building in Oklahoma City and fled the scene, detonating his bomb just as the...
Apr 19, 1995 · On April 19, 1995, at 9:02 a.m. a forty-eight-hundred-pound ammonium nitrate–fuel oil bomb exploded in a Ryder truck parked at the north entrance of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injuring approximately 850.
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The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995 was the deadliest act of homegrown terrorism in U.S. history, resulting in the deaths of 168 people.
On April 19, 1995, a truck bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. It killed 168 people, including 19 children, while leaving many trapped inside the structure. More than 680 people were wounded, and $652 million of damage was sustained across 16 city blocks.
This article offers a meaning-centered approach to understanding Oklahomans' (and Americans') adaptation to the 19 April 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. Adaptation to trauma is discussed in terms of the symbolism of trauma, especially the violation of the sense of place.
On the morning of April 19, 1995, 26-year-old army veteran Timothy James McVeigh parked a rental truck outside the Alfred P. Murrah federal government building in Oklahoma City. Listen to Two...
