Commemoration, today mark, the 25th anniversary of the explosion outside the alfred p. Murrah Federal Building that killed 168 people including those children inside a daycare facility. The washington journal and our partners at American History tv on cspan 3 spending this next hour looking back at the events from 25 years ago. Joining us in Oklahoma City at the National Memorial and museum is the executive director Carrie Watkins on this 25th anniversary but first from Late Afternoon of april 19th, 1995, these words by president bill clinton his first comments about the bombing. The bombing in Oklahoma City was an attack on innocent children and defenseless citizens. It was an act of cowardice and it was evil. The United States will not tolerate it. And i will not allow the people of this country to be intimidated by evil cowards. I have met with our team, which we assembled to deal with this bombing. And i have determined to take the following steps to assure the strongest response t
Cspan. Org coronavirus. Are look concludes with a visit to the sanders core center to hear about texas a m universitys corps of cadets. Texas a m and the core of today its came into existence at the same time and a lot of the things that go on here corps of cadets. A lot of the big traditions started with the corps of cadets. Welcome to texas a m university and the corps of cadets. My name is col. Byron stebbins, im a member of the class of 1970 and i would like to welcome to the core center designed to provide visitors to texas a m an understanding of what we are all about. It explains its history and some of the traditions that we have. Octoberm was opened on the fourth, 1876. Unfortunately, they did not have the student population to start classes. On october 6, 1876, 2 days later, it opened its door to 40 students. From that point to today where we are not only the Largest University in the state of texas, but we started as the Largest University in the united states. We have appro
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