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1995 Oklahoma City bombing disaster....
Item # 725456
April 20, 1995
LOS ANGELES TIMES, April 20, 1995
* Oklahoma City bombing
* Domestic terrorist attack
* Timothy McVeigh
The top of the front page has a nice banner headline: "Car Bomb Shreds Federal Building in Oklahoma City; 31 Dead, 300 Missing" with two related photos. Much more inside.
Complete with all sections (120+ pages), great condition.
background: The April 20, 1995, edition of the Los Angeles Times serves as a chilling "time capsule" of the moment America’s sense of domestic security was shattered. Because it was printed just one day after the blast, the banner headline "31 Dead, 300 Missing" reflects the initial, frantic stage of the rescue efforts before the full scale of the 168 fatalities was realized. Having the complete 120-page issue is particularly valuable because it captures the jarring contrast between the horrific imagery of the shredded Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and the mundane reality of 1995 life found in the inner sections—ads for mid-90s technology, local California politics, and sports scores. For a collector, this specific newspaper is more than just a report on Timothy McVeigh’s act of domestic terrorism; it is a primary source document that illustrates how a major metropolitan hub like Los Angeles processed a national trauma in real-time, long before the era of instant social media updates.
Category: The 20th Century
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