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Timothy James McVeigh (April 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001) was an American domestic terrorist who masterminded and perpetrated the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The bombing killed 168 people, including 19 children, injured 684, and destroyed one-third of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building .
McVeigh and Nichols cited the federal government's actions against the Branch Davidian compound in the 1993 Waco siege (shown above) as a reason why they perpetrated the Oklahoma City bombing. The chief conspirators, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, met in 1988 at Fort Benning during basic training for the U.S. Army. [24] McVeigh met Michael ...
Timothy McVeigh was unhappy about the U.S. federal government's handling of the Ruby Ridge incident in 1992, and he later drove to the siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas in 1993 ...
A woman who lost two grandsons in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing spoke out on why she's forgiven convicted bomber Timothy McVeigh. McVeigh detonated a truck bomb outside of the Alfred P. Murrah ...
The bombing came only two years after the first attack on the World Trade Center. Former U.S. soldier Timothy McVeigh was convicted on 11 counts of murder, conspiracy and using a weapon of mass ...
The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was one of the deadliest acts of terrorism in American history. At 9:02 a.m. CST April 19, 1995, a Ryder rental truck containing more than 6,200 pounds (2,800 kg) [1] of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, nitromethane, and diesel fuel mixture was detonated in front of the north side of the nine-story Alfred P. Murrah Federal ...
Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism is a chronicle of the political, historical and media-personality influences that radicalized McVeigh resulting in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. The book also ties McVeigh and those same influences to the radical right politics and the sometimes violent right-wing extremism of ...
In “Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism,” legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin provides the most authoritative and compelling history of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing to date.