{"id":1136,"date":"2015-03-03T04:10:35","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T04:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2015-03-04T17:58:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T17:58:02","slug":"oklahoma-city-bombing-april-19-1995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/oklahoma-city-bombing-april-19-1995\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City Bombing, April 19, 1995"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Oklahoma City bombing occurred on April 19, 1995 when American militia movement sympathizer Timothy McVeigh, with the assistance of Terry Nichols, destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.<\/p>\n

It was the most significant act of terrorism on American soil until the September 11 attacks in 2001, claiming the lives of 168 victims and injuring more than 680. The blast destroyed or damaged 324 buildings within a sixteen-block radius, destroyed or burned 86 cars, and shattered glass in 258 nearby buildings. The bomb was estimated to have caused at least $652 million worth of damage.<\/p>\n

Declassified Documents<\/h3>\n

Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) Documents<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"An Investigation of the Belated Production of Documents in the Oklahoma City Bombing Case <\/a>[258 Pages, 1.3mb]<\/p>\n

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Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Records on Timothy McVeigh<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Part of Timothy McVeigh’s FBI File<\/a> [10 Pages, 0.5mb]- This was released for my FOIA request, but additional pages were not processed. I filed a FOIA request for the additional pages never before processed, and this page will be updated when they are available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Oklahoma City bombing occurred on April 19, 1995 when American militia movement sympathizer Timothy McVeigh, with the assistance of Terry Nichols, destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It was the most significant act of terrorism on American soil until the September 11 attacks in 2001, claiming the lives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,17],"tags":[553,554],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-military-defense","category-terrorism","tag-domestic-terrorism","tag-oklahoma-city-bombing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t