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Oklahoma City Bombing
FBI.gov ^ | April 19th | FBI

Posted on 04/19/2023 8:59:09 AM PDT by ShadowAce

On the morning of April 19, 1995, an ex-Army soldier and security guard named Timothy McVeigh parked a rented Ryder truck in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City.

He was about to commit mass murder.

Inside the vehicle was a powerful bomb made out of a deadly cocktail of agricultural fertilizer, diesel fuel, and other chemicals. McVeigh got out, locked the door, and headed towards his getaway car. He ignited one timed fuse, then another.

At precisely 9:02 a.m., the bomb exploded.

Within moments, the surrounding area looked like a war zone. A third of the building had been reduced to rubble, with many floors flattened like pancakes. Dozens of cars were incinerated and more than 300 nearby buildings were damaged or destroyed.

The human toll was still more devastating: 168 souls lost, including 19 children, with several hundred more injured.

It was the worst act of homegrown terrorism in the nation’s history.

Coming on the heels of the World Trade Center bombing in New York two years earlier, the media and many Americans immediately assumed that the attack was the handiwork of Middle Eastern terrorists.

The FBI, meanwhile, quickly arrived at the scene and began supporting rescue efforts and investigating the facts. Beneath the pile of concrete and twisted steel were clues. And the FBI was determined to find them.

It didn’t take long.

On April 20, the rear axle of the Ryder truck was located, which yielded a vehicle identification number that was traced to a body shop in Junction City, Kansas.

Employees at the shop helped the FBI quickly put together a composite drawing of the man who had rented the van. Agents showed the drawing around town, and local hotel employees supplied a name: Tim McVeigh.

A quick call to the Bureau’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division in West Virginia on April 21 led to an astonishing discovery: McVeigh was already in jail.

He’d been pulled over about 80 miles north of Oklahoma City by an observant Oklahoma State Trooper who noticed a missing license plate on his yellow Mercury Marquis. McVeigh had a concealed weapon and was arrested. It was just 90 minutes after the bombing.

From there, the evidence began adding up.

Agents found traces of the chemicals used in the explosion on McVeigh’s clothes and a business card on which McVeigh had suspiciously scribbled, “TNT @ $5/stick, need more”. They learned about McVeigh’s extremist ideologies and his anger over the events at Waco two years earlier. They discovered that a friend of McVeigh’s named Terry Nichols helped build the bomb and that another man—Michael Fortier—was aware of the bomb plot.

The bombing was quickly solved, but the investigation turned out to be one of the most exhaustive in FBI history.

No stone was left unturned to make sure every clue was found and all the culprits identified.

By the time it was over, the Bureau had conducted more than 28,000 interviews, followed some 43,000 investigative leads, amassed three-and-a-half tons of evidence, and reviewed nearly a billion pieces of information.

In the end, the government that McVeigh hated and hoped to topple swiftly captured him and convincingly convicted both him and his co-conspirators


TOPICS: Conspiracy; History; Society
KEYWORDS: april19th
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1 posted on 04/19/2023 8:59:09 AM PDT by ShadowAce
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To: ShadowAce

Where is John Doe #2?


2 posted on 04/19/2023 9:00:24 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: ShadowAce

How much worse had an assault rifle been the tool used? Oh!?


3 posted on 04/19/2023 9:00:42 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: ShadowAce

All this may be true but still the FBI today is a tool of the authoritarian state.


4 posted on 04/19/2023 9:02:03 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: ShadowAce
April 19th has been very active in history.

Lexingon/Concord, Waco Massacre, and this are but three events that took place on this day.

5 posted on 04/19/2023 9:02:26 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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To: ShadowAce

Except for the big Indian or middle eastern guy seen hanging out with McV.
He was never found.


6 posted on 04/19/2023 9:03:32 AM PDT by 9422WMR (45 1. Lie, cheat, steal. It’s how the democRATS operate. )
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To: ShadowAce

Attacks on gov’t are dealt with swiftly and severely.

Attacks on churches and citizens are dragged out and ignored.


7 posted on 04/19/2023 9:03:36 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: ShadowAce

Who was McVeigh’s FBI handler?


8 posted on 04/19/2023 9:04:51 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: ShadowAce

Don’t worry. The cooperation between the Chinese and traitors here (Democrats/Leftists) will get a lot more people killed than that including FBI agents by the thousands AND their families. You Fed boys, keep supporting the present traitors and cover up their activies. You also fail to study history.


9 posted on 04/19/2023 9:04:56 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: ShadowAce

I was a Soldier stationed at Ft Bliss, El Paso, TX. The whole country thought the bomber was a muslim and that they/he’d be heading for the border.

Funny how they forgot that detail.


10 posted on 04/19/2023 9:05:01 AM PDT by fightin kentuckian
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To: ShadowAce

I no longer believe a word they say. Sad, but that’s reality.


11 posted on 04/19/2023 9:05:27 AM PDT by fretzer
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To: ShadowAce

IIRC, McVeigh said he did it to get even with the government over Waco siege.


12 posted on 04/19/2023 9:05:40 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Erik Latranyi

This was a Deep State false flag.

The best book on the topic:

https://www.amazon.com/Medusa-File-II-Politics-Oklahoma/dp/1547027843

Anyone who dares question the official narrative is by definition a “hater” “white nationalist” “Putin Puffer” “conspiracy theorist”.


13 posted on 04/19/2023 9:06:20 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: ShadowAce

“Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means - to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal - would bring terrible retributions.”

Louis D. Brandeis
Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)


14 posted on 04/19/2023 9:06:57 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Waco ...

The Feebs forgot to mention that the Branch Davidians were massacred by the FBI.


15 posted on 04/19/2023 9:07:10 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Tell It Right

Notice that McVeigh never named John Doe II.

That tells you all you need to know about his version of events.


16 posted on 04/19/2023 9:07:26 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: ShadowAce

McVeigh surely thought that the magnitude of the explosion would destroy any evidence. Otherwise, he might have stolen a truck for the deed.


17 posted on 04/19/2023 9:08:20 AM PDT by fwdude (Society has been fully polarized now, and you have to decide on which pole you want to be found.)
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To: 9422WMR

Remember hearing at the time there was a blast severed leg found, wearing a boot, which the authorities never identified to whom it belonged.


18 posted on 04/19/2023 9:08:52 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: ShadowAce

According to Democrats every Republican today is a Tim McVeigh wannabe in waiting.

I guarantee you before the day is over some leftist rag will insinuate that mindset.


19 posted on 04/19/2023 9:12:58 AM PDT by MachIV
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To: cgbg

Terry Nichols is still kicking, well kicking as much as he can for 23 hours a day confined to his 12’ x 7 cell at the Supermax prison.

Pacing back and forth each day in that cell, eating only the gruel that is slid into his cell each day for the last 25 or so years, and he has nothing to say.


20 posted on 04/19/2023 9:15:39 AM PDT by Round Earther
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