american terrorist. i m keith olbermann, good night and good luck. on april 19th, 1995, an anti-government extremist committed the worst act of domestic terrorism the united states had ever seen. so tonight, exactly 15 years later, this special edition of rachel maddow show brings you the inside story of the oklahoma city bombing. msnbc obtained 45 hours of audiotape interviews in which timothy mcveigh describes the planning and the execution and the motivations behind his horrific attack. this is a detailed account as it has never been heard before, told to us by the terrorist himself. nine years after his execution we re left worrying that mcveigh s voice from the grave echos and a new rising tide of american anti-government extremism. on this date which holds great meaning for the anti-government movement, the mcveigh tapes are
those who were killed, the events of april 19th, 1995 will never be forgotten. the consequences of mcveigh s horrific act still haunt them every day. i don t go around people too much. i go to church, i go to grocery store, and i m back home. because i can get up out of the bed in the mornings and i can feel pretty good, but sometime during that day, i m going to start crying. it s still wrong. it just doesn t seem like it was really that long ago. to this day i have problems with loud noises and have had dreams where i can hear an explosion and wake up, and there was no explosion. for me it seems pretty distant since i was only 3 1/2 and i couldn t really, like, take in what was going on. i just remember being confused. it almost seems like a dream. i ve had good days and bad. a lot of times i just sit and pray and tell god, you know, i m having it bad.
bill: fox news alert, it is the day yet again, 168 seconds of silence, one for each victim, today marking 15 years since the bombing of the murrah federal building in oklahoma city, a remembrance set to begin at 10:00 a.m. eastern time, it s such a poignant memorial to the lives lost that day and those jud. family members and victims and friends and survivors gather to mark that horrific day. the deadliest domestic terror attack in u.s. history. this was the scene, april 19th, 1995, after tim thee mcvey detonated a truck full of explosives outside of that building. we will listen in on the moment of silence coming in 30 minutes. we will be there too on america s newsroom . martha: all right, have you heard about this, the
i m wolf blitzer, and you re in the situation room. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. almost every american can recall exactly where they were when they first heard the news, 15 years ago, monday, a massive, homemade bomb ripped apart the murrah federal office building in oklahoma city, killing 168 people. the shock of the attack was compounded when it became clear that it was an act of domestic terrorism, carried out by a young u.s. army veteran, who had grown to hate the federal government. bill clinton was the president of the united states at that time. he sat down with me, today, to recall that day. mr. president, thanks very much for joining us. seems only at least for me and i assume for you like yesterday, april 19th, 1995, when you first heard that there was an incident in oklahoma
note indicating that he supported osama bin laden and that the act was deliberate. charles j. bishop plowed the stolen plane into the 42 story bank of america plaza building. the most devastating attack against a government building that did not involve a plane was the april 19th, 1995 truck bombing of the federal building in oklahoma city by timothy mcveigh, with assistance from terry nichols. 168 people died in that blast. mcvey was executed for his role in the attack. today s incident in austin is certain to raise new questions about the ability of the government to stop an attack from the air. air traffic control procedures that were supposed to have been changed after 9/11 failed when that northwest airlines jet overshot minneapolis last year. that northwest jet liner was out of radio contact for more than an hour. the military was called in at the very last moment and, in fact, radio contact was reestablished just before they launched the military jets. the big question, if the m