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1995 Oklahoma City bombing disaster....
1995 Oklahoma City bombing disaster....
Item # 723275
April 20, 1995
THE NEW YORK TIMES, April 20, 1995
* Oklahoma City bombing
* Domestic terrorist attack
* Timothy McVeigh
The top of the front page has a nice banner headline: "AT LEAST 21 ARE DEAD, SCORES ARE MISSING AFTER CAR BOMB ATTACK IN OKLAHOMA CITY WRECKS 9-STORY FEDERAL OFFICE BUILDING" with subheads and three related photos. (see images) Much more inside.
Complete with all major sections (70+ pages), great condition.
background: The Oklahoma City bombing occurred on April 19, 1995, when a rented Ryder truck packed with a large ammonium nitrate–fuel oil explosive detonated outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, killing 168 people—including 19 children in a day-care center—and injuring hundreds more, making it the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history at the time. The attack was carried out by Timothy McVeigh, a Gulf War veteran motivated by extreme anti-government ideology and anger over federal actions at Ruby Ridge (1992) and the Waco siege (1993); he was assisted by Terry Nichols, who helped plan and prepare the bomb, and Michael Fortier, who had foreknowledge of the plot. The blast destroyed or severely damaged nearby buildings, prompting a massive rescue and recovery effort and a national outpouring of grief. McVeigh was arrested shortly after the bombing during a traffic stop, convicted in 1997, and executed by lethal injection in 2001; Nichols received life sentences without parole, and Fortier served a 12-year sentence. The attack led to heightened awareness of domestic extremism, significant changes in federal building security, and the passage of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996.
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