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“On April 19, 1995, at 9:02 a.m. a bomb exploded in a Ryder truck parked outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City killing 168 people and injuring approximately 850.” Oklahoma Historical Society
Thomas Russell Bowden was born on May 20, 1841, near Williamsburg, the son of Lemuel J. Bowden and Martha Ellen Shackelford Bowden, and grew up on one of his father’s farms. In 1859 he entered the College of William and Mary, where he studied Latin, Greek, French, history, and economics for two years. As a member of the college’s Phoenix Literary Society, Bowden won a gold medal for his debating skills. He probably also studied law in his father’s Williamsburg office.
Bowden’s father and his uncle Henry M. Bowden were uncompromising Unionists during the winter of 1860–1861. In the spring of 1862, after the Union army occupied Williamsburg and acquired responsibility for the patients in the Eastern Lunatic Asylum, Union officers appointed Henry Bowden clerk and steward of the institution and made Thomas Bowden collector of its pay-patient fund. With the withdrawal of the Union army later in the summer the Bowden family left Williamsburg, and the events of the Civil War made
‘Whoever did this was an animal’: The Oklahoma City bombing in 1995
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His wife, LaRue, and his granddaughter, 4-year-old Ashley Eckles, were with him.
Julie Welch, 23, worked at the Social Security office. She worked with Spanish-speaking clients.
It was a normal day for all of them that ended in horror.
On Wednesday, April 19, 1995, at 9:03 a.m. a bomb exploded at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
The “bombing in the heartland” killed 168 people, including 19 children younger than 6 years old. More than 500 people were injured.
Oklahoma City fire Capt. Chris Fields carries 1-year-old Baylee Almon, in this file photo shot Wednesday, April, 19, 1995 at the Alfred Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. The child died of her injuries. (AP Photo/Charles H. Porter IV, File)ASSOCIATED PRESS