in michigan. he met with white supremacists across the nation while on the gun show circuit. where he also sold his favorite book. it just arrived today. he was outraged by waco. somebody told me a lot of people would be scared which he visited in person during the standoff. the fiery inferno there drove him to action. he finally decides that this government is so dangerous to its own citizens that it needs to be destroyed. holy cow. on april 19th, 1995, the two-year anniversary of waco blown away. mcveigh carried out what he considered to be his masterpiece. the attack was eerily similar to earl turner s attack on the fbi in the turner diaries. it was the same kind of target, a federal building. a similar kind of bomb.
matter how good justice is, it doesn t bring back a life. it doesn t undue an injury, it doesn t put back what was there. for the survivors and rescue teams and the families of those who were killed, the events of april 19th, 1995 will never be forgotten. the consequences of the horrific act still haunt them every day. i don t go around people too much. i go to church. i go to grocery stores. and i m back home. because i can get up out of the bed in the morning and feel pretty good, but sometimes that day i m going to start crying. it s still wrong. it just doesn t seem like it was 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.
oklahoma city on april 19th, 1995. if timothy have a was looking to make a statement, he succeeded in the worst way possible. debris, glass, it looks as though emergency crews are on the scene. the incredible explosion that ripped apart the alfred p murrah building ripped apart. the air was whipped into a tornado of glass shards and choking black smoke. floor pancaked on to the next, crushing and trapping men, women, and children below. the roof collapsed. the second floor held a daycare center. the lucky ones staggered into the street, some barely alive.
we were never told anything that would have gave you warning he was going to do something like this. in fact, as a teenager, he was the young man that people in the neighborhood would choose to baby sit 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 s childhood abuse or abandonment and you can see how someone developed into it. nothing striking in mcveigh s background. the young mcveigh did have a dark side. while still a teenager, he discovered the turner diaries, a venomously racist novel, lead by white supremacists against a federal government. it describes 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,
in oklahoma city on april 19th, 1995. if timothy mcveigh was looking to make a statement, then he had succeeded in the worst way possible. debris, glass. it looks as though emergency crews are on the scene. the incredible explosion that ripped apart the nine-story alfred p. murrah federal building with the force of roughly two tons of tnt. the air inside was whipped into a turning tornado on glass shards and choking black smoke. one floor pancaked onto 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. standing by. what the heck happened?