those still stuck inside. we can see people trapped but we can t get to them right now. some of them are crying and screaming and i ve done my best to reassure them. officials still believe dozens, if not 150 or more people, may still be trapped in the building and may not have survived. reporter: they did, however, pull dozens of people live from the rubble that day. if somebody did that, what could be their motive with that many innocent people. what happened was a bad thing, an evil thing but we will find the people who did it and we will bring them to justice. reporter: investigators found pieces of a ryder truck at the center of the blast site and the search was on for two men who rented it. these are the faces of the men suspected in the terrorist attack. reporter: but one of them, it turns out, was already in jail. one of the individuals believed to be responsible for wednesday s terrible attack on the murrah federal building in
manslaughter ordering him to spend the rest of his life in prison. but mcveigh got the death sentence and in 2001 i was there as the government carried it out. he stared up at the ceiling and into a camera in the town that he tried to destroy. it was quite a moment. the victims of oklahoma city have been given not vengeance but justice. reporter: by that time, a memorial had been open on the spot where the murrah building once stood. 168 empty chairs representing each of them who lost their lives there 20 years ago. in new york shepard smith fox news. and now moving on, a third suspect was aware of the bomb plot and failed to inform
day in oklahoma city. memorial ceremonies marking 20 years since the deadly bombing at a government building. 168 people killed. as journalists, many of us found ourselves in the heartbroken middle of that horrible chapter in america s history. i guess it s the missing part that s the hardest. i have fights with god and i still want to know why the kids had to die. including that day i went back a year after the bombing of the alfred p. murrah federal building and ran across many journalists including one that you know well, to take us back because we will never forget that hit on our american way of life. here s shepard smith. at 9:04 this morning, the federal building was almost completely destroyed by what we believe was a car bombing. reporter: a bomb so powerful people said they felt it 55 miles away as it exploded a
on a very busy sunday, a somber day in oklahoma city. memorial ceremonies marking 20 years since the deadly bombing at a government building. 168 people killed. as journalists, many of us found ourselves in the heartbroken middle of that horrible chapter in america s history. i guess it s the missing part that s the hardest. i have fights with god and i still want to know why the kids had to die. including that day i went back a year after the bombing of the alfred p. murrah federal building and ran across many journalists including one that you know well, to take us back because we will never forget that hit on our american way of life. here s shepard smith. at 9:04 this morning, the federal building was almost completely destroyed by what we believe was a car bombing. reporter: a bomb so powerful people said they felt it 55
michael fortier neither of those things. it s a secret where he is. how is that possible? that a man who admitted to not only knowing about the plan but admitting casing the murrah federal building with mcveigh. he knew how the bomb was built and where the explosive material was purchased. how is it he is not now in prison? it is to say at the least controversial and complicated. his lawyer illustrated these charts back in 1995 as fortier told him what he knew. this diagram is the actual diagram tim drew out on a piece of paper what he called a shape charge. reporter: these are the barrels of explosives? this is how they would be set inside the truck. we ve seen a number of small children being carried bleeding heavily. reporter: the bombing remains the heaviest home grown attack in u.s. history. 168 people killed including 19 children. today the site of the murrah building is a memorial and