Summary Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing.docx CJT222 Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing Homeland Security - CJT222_701 Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing INTRODUCTION The bombing took place at Oklahoma City when a truck bundled with explosives

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Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing

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Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing


INTRODUCTION
The bombing took place at Oklahoma City when a truck bundled with explosives

exploded on April 19, 1995, killing 168 people and leaving hundreds more wounded outside the

Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma Town, Oklahoma. Timothy McVeigh, who had

been executed for his crimes in 2001, started the explosion. He was sentenced to death in prison

to his co-conspirator Terry Nichols.



A River truck was exploding in front of nine-story Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in

downtown Oklahoma City just after 9 a.m. on 19 April 1995. A terrific force hit the Ryder. The

mighty blast struck the entire north wall of the house. Emergency teams raced around the

country to Oklahoma, and when the relief mission concluded two weeks later, 168 people died.



LITERATURE REVIEW
19 young children were included among the list of the victims who were at the time of

the explosion in the daycare centre. The bombing damaged or burned over 300 structures in the

nearby city wounded more than 650 other people. A huge search for the victims of the bombing

followed, and the officials brought a profile of Timothy McVeigh, a former U.S. Army officer,

in the case on 21 April ( Gephart, 2019).