we were never told anything that would have give you warning that he was going do something like this. in fact, as a teenager, he was the young man that people in the neighborhood would choose to babysit their kids. he was a good student. he was bright. above average intelligence. sometimes you look at the history of severe criminal conduct and there is childhood abuse or abandonment, and you can see how someone developed into it. nothing striking in mcveigh s background. but the young mcveigh did have a dark side. while still a teenager, he had discovered the turner diaries, a venomously racist novel about an armed insurrection led by white supremacists against an oppressive federal government. it described a truck bombing of fbi headquarters in washington d.c. shortly after 9:00 in the morning, sounding very similar to what took place in oklahoma city on april 19th, 1995.
of fbi headquarters in washington d.c. shortly after 9:00 in the morning, sounding very similar to what took place in oklahoma city on april 19th, 1995. if timothy mcveigh was looking to make a statement that he had succeeded in the worst way possible. debris, blast. it looks as though emergency crews are on the scene. the incredible explosion that ripped apart the nine-story alfred p. murrah federal building hit with nearly two tons of tnt. the air inside was whipped into a churning tornado of glass shards and choking black smoke. one floor pancaked to the next crushing and trapping men, women, and children below. the roof has collapsed. the second floor held a daycare center. the lucky ones staggered into the street. some barely alive.
with unprecedence, we re resilient. we re a very strong faith-based community and then rewind even before that, april 19th, 1995. the unprecedented terrorist attack in oklahoma city. we responded, we were resilient. first and foremost, our thoughts and prayers are with the victims. those that we know had lost their lives and our prayers are wir their families and we continue to fight through it and come out on top. lieutenant governor, thank you very much. thank you for sharing some of that good news. we can just keep hoping for more of those miracles out front. thanks again, sir. thank you for having me. well, still to come live on outfront tonight, we re going to go to the center.
they were beginning their morning on the murrah building second floor when the explosion took their lives. i remember the day they told us aaron and elijah were dead. i remember screaming at god. it took me a long time to get over some of that anger. so now i go visit aaron and elijah at the cemetery. sometimes i get angry then, too. they were little boys. and you just don t murder little kids. aaron would be 20 years old now. elijah would be 17. sometimes during the day you re going to cry or there s going to be something that s going to remind you of the bombing and you re right back where you were on april 19th, 1995. we don t ever get too far from there.
peace. i could feel the ground tremble beneath me. sitting on top of the bombs was no big deal. the weather along the kansas slk oklahoma border is crisp and clear when the sun rises on the morning of april 19th, 1995. 100 miles north of oklahoma city timothy mcveigh wakes at dawn after sleeping soundly on the side of the highway in the cab of his rented ryder truck. now loaded with 7,000 pounds of explosives, ready to ignite. he had initially intended to bomb the building at about 11:00 in the morning, but he finally decides at the very last minute, despite all his talk about how he had every detail of the plan worked out in advance, he decides he has to go right away, there s too much of a chance of being caught, so he actually leaves at about 7:00 in the