The explosion was a 2 ton bomb in a yellow rental Ryder hauling truck parked outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building. The bomb was made up of many ingredients. Some of the ingredients were blasting caps and liquid nitro. The truck was parked in a parking area outside the Alfred P. Murrah building. When it went off it damaged or destroyed more than 300 other buildings in the area. The explosions also blew off the building's north wall and about a third of the building was blown away. The rescue effort lasted for two weeks, and they found 168 people dead including 19 children who were in the building's daycare, and more than 500 people were injured. The daycare center was at the center of the blast on the second floor of the nine story building. There were 26 children in the daycare. Out of all of them, 19 died.
Interesting facts....
Interesting facts....
- The day the bomb went off Timothy was wearing his favorite T-shirt. On the back of the T-shirt was a tree with blood dripping from the branches. It said, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
- Timothy McVeigh never went back to see what his bomb did.
How Timothy was caught....
Timothy was caught in his get-away car just about 90 minutes after the blast and arrested by an Oklahoma Patrol officer Trooper Charlie Hanger for four different charges: Unlawfully carrying a weapon, transporting a loaded firearm in a motor vehicle, failing to display a current license plate, and failing to maintain proof of insurance, Timothy's get-away car was a beat-up 1977 Mercury Grand Marquis and was originally pulled over because the trooper saw a lack of a license plate and wanted to know why Timothy had not had one. The rear axle of the Ryder truck that bomb was in was found and had an identifying number on it along with that the rear bumper was found with its license plate number was still readable. These parts were traced to the name Robert Kling which was the name Timothy used on the rental agreement. From there an FBI artist got the two famous suspect sketches, John Doe #1 and John Doe #2. From there they found a motel he stayed at from there they found out his name really was Timothy McVeigh. He gave his address as Terry Nichols' farm in Decker, Michigan, which is how Nichols was found out too. When the Bureau's Criminal Justice Information Services Division called, they found out McVeigh was already in jail. They had their terrorist.
Timothy was caught in his get-away car just about 90 minutes after the blast and arrested by an Oklahoma Patrol officer Trooper Charlie Hanger for four different charges: Unlawfully carrying a weapon, transporting a loaded firearm in a motor vehicle, failing to display a current license plate, and failing to maintain proof of insurance, Timothy's get-away car was a beat-up 1977 Mercury Grand Marquis and was originally pulled over because the trooper saw a lack of a license plate and wanted to know why Timothy had not had one. The rear axle of the Ryder truck that bomb was in was found and had an identifying number on it along with that the rear bumper was found with its license plate number was still readable. These parts were traced to the name Robert Kling which was the name Timothy used on the rental agreement. From there an FBI artist got the two famous suspect sketches, John Doe #1 and John Doe #2. From there they found a motel he stayed at from there they found out his name really was Timothy McVeigh. He gave his address as Terry Nichols' farm in Decker, Michigan, which is how Nichols was found out too. When the Bureau's Criminal Justice Information Services Division called, they found out McVeigh was already in jail. They had their terrorist.
The picture above is a famous picture that haunted many people. This picture was at the Oklahoma City bombing. The article "Living with nightmares" by Elizabeth Gleick states, "One day last week firefighter Chris Fields joined the congregants the fence. Fields, 31, was immortalized when a camera captured him carrying the body of one-year-old Baylee Almon from the bomb site--an image that came to symbolize all the heroism and tragedy of that bloody Wednesday. Thrown together by chance, Field and Baylee's mother Aren have become friends; Almon says he calls her a couple of times a week just to check in. Speaking not just for himself but also for the hundreds of rescue workers who helped piece Oklahoma City together during those awful days, Fields admits his life will never be the same. He treasures his wife and three-year-old son as never before. 'You think your family is going to be there every day,' he says, fingering a brown teddy bear someone left in the fence, 'but after something like this, you know it can all change in one second.'"