Timothy Mcveigh: The Oklahoma City Bombing

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The Oklahoma City Bombing was a devastating time for Oklahoma along with the rest of the nation. People’s lives were lost and destroyed. The children were not even spared. Building after building reaped the consequences aside the Murrah building. All this was due to a man named Timothy McVeigh. He received the death penalty because of his actions. It was a logical choice to have the execution closed-circuited
Timothy McVeigh was born in New York in 1968. He lived there until he joined the army. Although his main goal was to become a Green Beret. Some years later he got that opportunity. McVeigh soon realized he was not cut out for the Green Berets though. He then requested leave from the army. Shortly after a standoff occurred in Waco, Texas. Federal agents had stormed into a compound. Many people died and many people blamed the government for the deaths. One of those people was Timothy McVeigh.
The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was executed by Timothy McVeigh. He was prompted by the events in Waco, Texas. McVeigh scheduled the bombing for April 19 in 1995. He parked a Ryder truck outside the building , quite close to the front. Inside sat the bomb. McVeigh had also parked a getaway car, …show more content…
The surviving victims and their families are content with that sentence. Although now a new issue had arisen. Should the execution be on an open or closed circuit feed? Should the public be able to watch it or should it be restricted to only the victims and their families? McVeigh, always, a man to make a scene, wanted the public to be able to watch it (Carlson). “McVeigh will be the first condemned killer to get not only a last meal and last words but also a last photo op” (Carlson). He wants everyone to know what he did and that he is capable of doing anything for his cause, even if that means dying. He would be unable to do that if the execution is on a closed

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Oklahoma City Bombing Effects The morning of April 19, 1995, all was normal in downtown Oklahoma City. It seemed like an ordinary Wednesday, as people went through their daily routines of going to work. All that changed when the clock struck 9:02. Timothy McVeigh, a former U.S. Army soldier, changed the lives of many in a matter of seconds. A large bomb created by McVeigh caused a massive explosion near the Alfred P. Murrah building in downtown Oklahoma City which took the lives of men, women, and…

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The most devastating domestic attack on United States soil prior to September 11, 2001 took place on April 19, 1995 at exactly 9:02 am when the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma was blown up. The explosion was made by a homemade bomb placed inside of a rented truck next to the north wall of the building, this happened to be right next to the building’s daycare. One hundred and sixty eight innocent people were killed in this explosion, nineteen of them being young and harmless children…

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OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING The morning of April 19th, Timothy McVeigh loaded a rented Ryder truck outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City with a potent combination of agricultural fertilizer, diesel fuel, and other chemicals (FBI). He got out of the van, locked the door and then headed toward the getaway car. He then lit the two fuses one at a time. At 9:02 the bomb exploded. Blowing off a third of the building Not only was that building destroyed but 300 others surrounding…

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would be the last day that anything was ever normal again. This was all thanks to one man--Timothy McVeigh. He caused countless tears and broken hearts for numerous Oklahomans and other people around the country. Because McVeigh’s actions were very impactful for Oklahoman’s, the trial should have been held in Oklahoma. McVeigh grew up in Texas and had a tough childhood. In school, he was called “Chicken McVeigh,” and his mom moved to Florida, leaving him and his family (Thomas). This left him angry…

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United States and that individual wouldn’t ever cause the country affliction in any type a way. Nonetheless, the egregious acts on April 19, 1995, in Oklahoma city left millions of Americans puzzled on why Timothy Mcveigh carried out the heinous events, which claimed the lives of 168 Americans. Nevertheless, leading up to this horrific event Mcveigh participated in a number of bank robberies to raise money to execute anti-government violence and turned his Arizona home into a bunker, renounced his…

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after the explosion, an Oklahoma Highway Patrol officer pulled over Timothy McVeigh for driving without a license plate. McVeigh was carrying a concealed weapon without a permit and his vehicle was not registered. It was then he was arrested, booked, and put in jail at the Perry, Oklahoma. Shortly after McVeigh was the suspect of the bombing. One friend of McVeigh named Terry Nichols voluntarily gave himself into the police officer in Kansas and was later charged in the bombing (Linder). The final decision…

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In conclusion, the bombing that took place on April 19, 1995, was a very cataclysmic event. 168 lives were lost that day in Oklahoma City, and 680 people were harmed form that blast. It was the largest terrorist attack on American soil, until September 11, 2001(Coats). Many people are scarred and healing emotionally from this horrid event, and may possibly never heal completely. The harm Timothy McVeigh caused was extreme, but justice was served and Timothy was executed in 2001 by lethal injection…

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