Oklahoma City Boming

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Oklahoma City Boming

• Jackson Robles
• Ashton Wright
• Dorsey Spencer

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Timothy McVeigh

• Timothy McVeigh was born April 23, 1968 in
  Pendleton, New York, and grew up near Buffalo,
  Niagara and Canada.
• McVeigh graduated from high school in June, 1986
  and in the fall, entered a two-year business
  college. He attended only a short time. McVeigh
  enlisted in the Army and went through basic
  training at Fort Benning, Georgia.

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• On April 17, 1995, McVeigh rented a Ryder truck
  and then McVeigh and Nichols loaded the Ryder
  truck with approximately 5,000 pounds of ammonium
  nitrate fertilizer.

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• April 19th at 902am, McVeigh drove the Ryder
  truck to the Murrah Federal Building, lit the
  bomb's fuse, parked in front of the building,
  left the keys inside the truck and locked the
  door, then walked across the parking lot to an
  alley, then started to jog.

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Result

• Nearly the entire north face of the 9-story
  building was pulverized into dust and rubble.

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Death Toll

• 168 people were killed in the explosion, which
  included 19 children. One nurse was also killed
  during the rescue operation.
• 450 were injured

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Why the Murrah Federal Building

• The Murrah building was chosen for its glass
  frontwhich was expected to shatter under the
  impact of the blastand its adjacent large, open
  parking lot across the street, which might absorb
  and dissipate some of the force, and protect the
  occupants of nearby non-federal buildings

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• The blast destroyed or damaged 324 buildings
  within a sixteen-block radius, and shattered
  glass in 258 nearby buildings.The broken glass
  alone accounted for 5 of the death total and 69
  of the injuries outside the Murrah Federal
  Building.

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Discovery

• Ninety minutes after the explosion, McVeigh was
  pulled over by a highway patrol officer for
  driving without a license plate but when the
  officer discovered that McVeigh had an
  unregistered gun, he arrested him on a firearms
  charge. Before McVeigh was released, his ties to
  the explosion were discovered.

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• On June 3, 1997, McVeigh was convicted of murder
  and conspiracy and on August 15, 1997 he was
• sentenced to
• death by
• lethal injection.

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Timothy McVeighs Death

• On June 11,
• 2001, McVeigh
• was executed.

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Accomplice

• Terry Nichols was brought in for questioning for
  being an accomplice his in McVeigh's plan.  

• On December 24, 1997, a federal jury found
  Nichols guilty and on June 5, 1998 Nichols was
  sentenced to life in prison.

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Reason

• Did It because he blamed the us. Government for
  the Waco siege.
• Waco siege was a fifty-one-day siege by federal
  agents of the Branch Davidian religious group's
  commune headquarters outside Waco, Texas, in
  early 1993.

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• 75 perished either by gunshot or by fire inside
  the compound

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Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum

• created to honor those who were killed by the
  1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal
  Building in Oklahoma City.
• 620 N. Harvey, Oklahoma City