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On April 19, 1995, the Oklahoma City Bombing shocked the United States to its core. This video shows real-time footage of the moment the truck bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building - as it happened.
With 168 lives lost and hundreds more injured, this devastating act of domestic terrorism marked a turning point in American history. Watch the chaos unfold, the rescue efforts begin, and a shaken nation respond.
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📍 Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
💥 Attack: Domestic Terrorism
📅 Date: April 19, 1995
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📍 Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
💥 Attack: Domestic Terrorism
📅 Date: April 19, 1995
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00:00A massive car bomb exploded outside of a large federal building in downtown Oklahoma City,
00:05shattering that building, killing children, killing federal employees, military men, and civilians.
00:11The chaos in downtown Oklahoma City did indeed resemble Beirut after what police believed to be a 1,200-pound car bomb
00:18ripped through the nine-story federal building shortly after 9 o'clock this morning.
00:22More than 500 people were already in their offices,
00:25and at least 50 children were in a daycare center on the second floor.
00:30There has been a massive explosion at a federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
00:34It happened just a short time ago.
00:36A large portion of that building has collapsed and fallen away from the rest of the building.
00:40At the moment, we don't have any specific numbers on injuries or deaths,
00:44but we can tell you that the Red Cross in the Oklahoma City area has asked for all volunteers to report for duty.
00:50Also, we can tell you that they've asked for donations of blood,
00:53so the situation is obviously serious.
00:56We're going to go right now and join our coverage of our sister station, KFOR, in Oklahoma City.
01:01They're on the air, and maybe they can give us some more information.
01:03For our viewers who may have just joined us, let's go ahead and recap what happened.
01:07There was an explosion.
01:08It happened about an hour ago, as you said earlier.
01:10It happened at about 9 o'clock.
01:12You may have felt it at about 9 o'clock.
01:14It was at the Alfred Murrell Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City.
01:17Right now, we're about to get a live report from the news channel's Tara Bloom.
01:20Tara, what can you tell us?
01:21Well, Lee, just take a look for yourself.
01:23There's the Alfred Murrell Federal Building behind me, and you can see just how badly damaged it is.
01:29It's about half of the building that is literally hanging,
01:32and at the bottom, the bottom two floors are just stacked debris.
01:37I thought it was an earthquake because I resided in California for many years,
01:41and it was almost like slow motion.
01:43I felt a shake, and then it began shaking more, and I dove under my desk, and then the glass hole came in.
01:50I think that helped save me.
01:51All the glass was gone.
01:53It's all over the office.
01:54Where's your office located?
01:55Can you point to it?
01:56We're on the fifth floor, right on the end.
01:59I can walk from here, from my office to the door where I normally enter, and there's nothing there anymore.
02:04It's just from me to these individuals, the building's gone.
02:08There's so much chaos up there.
02:10You just would not understand.
02:12There's so much chaos up there, and it's trying to be controlled,
02:17and people doing their jobs to try to make this a little bit easier than what it is.
02:22I couldn't imagine you making it any easier if you take a look at that building over there.
02:26We don't know who planted this bomb or placed the car bomb there or why.
02:33A good deal of speculation, but so far, no one, so far as we can tell,
02:37has called to take not credit but responsibility for this mendacious act,
02:43this absolutely evil act that not only cost so many people serious injuries,
02:51but probably cost a good many lives as well,
02:53and struck at the heart of the federal system, not just at Oklahomans.
02:58And then, of course, there is the psychological damage and the emotional damage as well.
03:04But as far as you're concerned, really still no information,
03:09no credible information on who caused this.
03:11No, I have a feeling it was not.
03:14I think that was someone with another purpose to make it appear as if it was the nation of Islam.
03:19But, again, that's just conjecture at this point.
03:22It happens to be something that the president agrees with.
03:25So there's no way of telling at this point whether or not that has anything to do with it.
03:31We do know it's a terrorist type of, this is the conclusion you have to come.
03:37Senator, are you satisfied with what the president told you about the federal response?
03:41I am satisfied with the federal response, and I'm also satisfied with the state response.
03:46I've talked to Governor Keating, and I think we're doing everything we can.
03:52And so, but again, it's a tough one to handle.
03:56We're just going to have to get to the bottom of it.
03:57Lots of questions out there today, Senator, regarding this.
04:01And I'm sure lots of Americans are scratching their heads and saying, Oklahoma City?
04:06It can happen anywhere.
04:08If it can happen there, it can happen anywhere else.
04:11And I think that, and the president, again, stated this, and we both agreed on this,
04:16that it's first we try to save the lives that are there now.
04:20Then we try to find out what it is because this is too well orchestrated, in my view,
04:26not to be something connected with terrorist activities, and we're going to have to stop it.
04:31Stressing that we don't know who's behind this,
04:33we did talk with the former Oklahoma Congressman Dave McCurdy earlier today
04:37who talked about some Islamic groups that are in that city that have caused concerns
04:43and have been watched.
04:45What do you know about that?
04:47Well, I just wouldn't want to comment on Dave McCurdy.
04:50He was the one I beat for this job.
04:52And I don't think that he has any information other than what the president has.
04:58And I just talked to the president.
05:00I think it's probably doing a disservice to be coming to conclusions concerning the nation of Islam at this point.
05:07Well, what will people need in Oklahoma City as this day and the days come afterwards?
05:14What will they need as the shock wears off, as emotions set in,
05:17as we hear more news of those that have died?
05:20There is information that children have died in this?
05:23Well, and there are currently people trapped.
05:26The current thing that is being done right now is to save the lives of those who are,
05:30those lives that are endangered at the present time.
05:32Then as soon as that's over and the death settles, we'll have a chance to look at it and see.
05:37And of course, try to find out what, who is responsible.
05:40That would be the first thing.
05:42So we'll have to reflect on that tomorrow and see.
05:45If no one comes forward and claims responsibility,
05:49how confident are you in the investigation afterwards
05:52that they'll be able to piece this together and come to some conclusion?
05:55Well, I seriously doubt that anyone would come forward and claim responsibility
05:59unless it's some nut out there.
06:01And there are a number of those, of course.
06:03They just kept falling.
06:04It was a horrible noise.
06:08Horrible noise.
06:09What did it sound like?
06:10I don't know.
06:13I didn't hear a, like a, I didn't hear a noise.
06:17It was just after what had happened, whatever happened, happened.
06:23Just the roar of the whole building crumbling.
06:29And where I was sitting is the only place the floor didn't cave in.
06:36I mean, right over here, the floor was gone.
06:38So the floor that you were sitting on didn't cave, but all around you it did?
06:43No, my little area where I was sitting.
06:46But the, I was on the seventh floor.
06:50And then, of course, the eighth floor came down and went through.
06:53And then they just kept on going down.
06:55There was a window to a hall by my desk.
07:00And I crawled, crawled over and got out.
07:06And the stairwell was still lit.
07:08The light was on in the stairwell.
07:10These nurses from this triad center, where we were anticipating they were going to be bringing
07:15some of the people who were wounded here,
07:17we've set up with about probably three to four hundred volunteers here.
07:20And tell me your name and tell me what they've just told you here at this triad center.
07:24My name's Joanne McCurley.
07:26They just told us that they had found 80 people and only two were alive.
07:30And they told us all to go home.
07:32Okay, so this triad center then is dismantling.
07:34Is that correct?
07:35Correct.
07:36On this side.
07:36Okay, and who told you this about the people who were inside?
07:39Who did you get this word from?
07:41The guy in charge of the nurses.
07:43All right, so these other people that are inside, these are casualties then?
07:47Is this what you're hearing?
07:48That's my understanding.
07:49Nine floors in all.
07:51And as you see, as we earlier were showing you, the aerial shot,
07:55just about the entire, all nine floors had at least one section of them
07:58completely scooped away from the building.
08:01And you can see it looking up the front face of the building.
08:04And this was just shortly after the explosion had first occurred,
08:08when the fires were still burning and the cars that had been adjacent to the one
08:12that we believe started all of this.
08:13Mayor Norrick telling us that he's been told that it was a car bomb
08:17loaded with about 1,200 pounds of explosives that started this entire thing.
08:21Well, we were talking about, Devin was talking about the rescue effort,
08:24which is going on and will go on for days.
08:27It's going to be really tricky, though.
08:28That building, as you can tell, is just extremely unstable.
08:32Worries of collapse and everything else.
08:34But they're going in there for those people who are crying out for help right now.
08:38And again, we mentioned that 62-member rescue and search squad flying in from Phoenix.
08:41They have equipment that will help them detect sounds from people who are trapped inside.
08:47They're one of the five or six units in this country who can do this,
08:50and they are on their way right now to help out.
08:53It is just amazing.
08:54Right now I'm standing right beside a building that's been destroyed from this,
08:58which is across the street.
09:01And the destruction is just incredible.
09:04Although the people seem to be much more under control,
09:07when I got here, there was an uproar because there were other bomb threats.
09:12So they were moving people back.
09:14And the really bad situation with that is that we couldn't go in the building right away,
09:19or the firemen couldn't go in right away to get to the people that needed assistance.
09:23Are they still pulling people out a little at a time?
09:26Yeah, they're still pulling them out.
09:28One fireman just said that they are coming out of there with tears,
09:33that there are people that they can't get to or it's taking a long time for them to get to,
09:37and they can hear them crying and screaming out for help.
09:41And I think it's probably one of the worst situations that some of these firemen have seen.
09:47What do you sense on down the road, later today, tonight, tomorrow, next week?
09:53I sense that as far as the people, I say that this could take a few days to get to everybody
10:03and to clear the building out.
10:04I'm just guessing.
10:06As far as the destruction that's done, that's going to be,
10:10that's a long ways away before they get everything cleaned up and back to normal down here.
10:15The bomb squad told us that if there had been a secondary device,
10:19that the violent explosion from the primary device would have detonated it.
10:23So we have bomb squad members inside the building with our rescue teams
10:26in case we do come across something, they can take care of it immediately.
10:29So the original word on the street of possibly as many as three bombs in total
10:34is not necessarily true at this time?
10:36Nothing that I know of to confirm that.
10:38Okay.
10:38Now we've also, obviously we just have a big bus driving by,
10:41so you can probably see it and hear the noise, so I'm going to speak up a little bit here.
10:44We've heard rumors, and again, tell me if this is confirmed,
10:48six children dead and two adults so far.
10:50Okay.
10:51We've heard eight dead, but I don't have the breakdown yet.
10:54I'm going back inside the building now, Jeff,
10:56to try to get that more accurate count of things for you,
10:59and I'll be out in about an hour.
11:00I'm going to go in with our crew and see how we're doing.
11:02And one final thing is that there was a word on collapse,
11:05and you mentioned that earlier, right after the initial bomb blast,
11:08part of the building collapsed.
11:09Has there been any other collapse since then?
11:11We've had some minor secondary collapses inside the building,
11:14and that's going to happen to us.
11:16We've got to be very careful as we remove rubble that's unstable.
11:20There's some things that we don't want to cause for ourselves,
11:23but that's always a possibility right now,
11:24and yes, we have had some secondary collapses.
11:26What about other buildings in the area that are very, very close here?
11:30What about any of these other buildings that have been hit hard with this blast?
11:35Are there any other buildings that are in serious danger right now?
11:38Yes, Jeff, across the street, and there are some area buildings,
11:42as you can see, that have some pretty significant structural damage.
11:46These people are going to have to get structural engineers in those buildings
11:49to check the integrity prior to letting their employees back in.
11:52Again, I think Mayor Norick this afternoon will have an announcement
11:55as to if people want to stay out of downtown tomorrow.
11:59Tell me about the emotional effect on the firefighters and the rescue people that are working.
12:03You've brought people in as far away as Tulsa, Davis, Oklahoma.
12:06There's people from all over the state coming in here.
12:09What kind of emotional toll are these people going to be facing,
12:12and are you setting up an emotional triage for your workers?
12:15Yes, sir.
12:15We've got a crickling and stressed briefing area set up when we bring our folks out.
12:19It is emotional.
12:20I've met firefighters coming out of the building.
12:21They've had tears in their eyes from crawling through
12:24and looking at the devastation both to the building and the people.
12:29And it's emotional trying to rescue people, and it is.
12:33It's very taxing, but we're going to be here throughout it,
12:36and we're going to do the very best we can.
12:37There have been reports of two explosive devices, unexploded explosive devices, found.
12:45So it's important for us to get the National Guard on the scene.
12:48It's important for us to get the law enforcement community on the scene,
12:52the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, all of the authorities of the state
12:55to assist the Oklahoma City Police Department
12:57and the authorities in A, securing the area,
13:00obviously B, caring for the injured,
13:02and C, making sure that this does not recur.
13:05Any idea, sir, on who may be responsible for this, or any idea?
13:12None whatsoever.
13:13What's the, any different plans for what's going on around the Capitol building?
13:20Are you breaking up security over the mansion?
13:21Well, I can't be specific as to whatever security measures are being taken,
13:28but certainly whatever security measures are required will be taken.
13:31The fact is we don't know what occurred, who did it, how extensive it was.
13:36It's just important that we provide now an immediate response to care for the injured,
13:41an immediate response to provide law enforcement, crowd control,
13:45and emergency services through the Highway Patrol and Department of Public Safety
13:48and the Oklahoma National Guard, which we are doing.
13:50And, of course, providing any assistance to the Oklahoma City Police Department
13:54and the Oklahoma City authorities they need.
13:56This was a ghastly thing that happened,
13:58and we want to make sure that those who have been injured will be cared for
14:04and that this cannot recur.
14:05There are really cowardly, almost satanic people that would slaughter innocent people like this,
14:14and I certainly hope that they're going to be apprehended and punished very quickly.
14:18Well, we have had reports recently that the FBI is looking for three suspects,
14:23two described as Middle Eastern.
14:25We don't know yet who is behind this,
14:29but we have heard reports of some terrorist groups in this country,
14:35specifically Oklahoma City.
14:37Why do you think this could have happened to Oklahoma City?
14:40Well, it's a shocking thing because there's not anything that you would think of
14:43ever happening to a place like in Oklahoma or Oklahoma City.
14:47We're a pretty peaceful neighborhood,
14:48and I can't think of any terrorist activity we've ever had before.
14:53So we're not a hotbed of terrorist activity.
14:55There may have been some that were there, obviously,
14:57but these are terrorists, and I don't know where they're from.
15:01I don't know if they're from this country or not,
15:05but regardless, anybody that would do this type of activity,
15:09plant a bomb in a public building,
15:10responsible for the loss of a lot of lives,
15:14destroying many other lives,
15:16because, frankly, if you're a parent and you lost a child
15:18or if you've lost a loved one that was working there
15:21or they're injured significantly,
15:23this is going to ruin a lot of people's lives.
15:25It's going to cost millions of dollars.
15:28We need to do everything we can do to find who's responsible
15:31and punish them aggressively,
15:32and I think this makes an excellent case for the death penalty.
15:36Anybody that would do this type of activity
15:38is certainly worthy of that punishment.
15:40We need to go back to take care of whatever we do
15:42with our patients on the outside
15:44because there is nothing to do.
15:46Everyone that's in the building right now,
15:49in two hours, there was one person found,
15:51and everyone else is dead.
15:54Everyone else who's in the building at this point
15:56is beyond help, is what you're saying?
15:58They're unable to reach these people,
16:01or the ones that we have been,
16:03that they have been discovering,
16:05excuse me,
16:06we can't provide help for.
16:09I mean, they're beyond help.
16:11They're dead.
16:12About how many people, do you have any idea,
16:14are in there?
16:15Well, when we were released to come out,
16:18the coroner had indicated that he needed 100 more body bags,
16:22so he wouldn't ask for that if he didn't need it.
16:25So the indication that you're getting
16:27is at least another 100 people dead in that building.
16:30Sounds like it.
16:31How are the medical workers holding up?
16:33This is such a horrible, horrible thing.
16:35Has any of this reality hit you yet?
16:37No.
16:39We're still living on adrenaline mostly at this point.
16:43When you initially go in,
16:44you're trying to deal with these things first response,
16:47and you go on instinct and adrenaline.
16:49It's later whenever the reality sinks in.
16:52It'll be late this afternoon
16:54when we all start sitting around together crying,
16:56because that's what she'll do.
16:58You know, especially with,
17:00you know, I don't have small children.
17:01My children are grown,
17:02but these kids are not alive.
17:05I know there were six initially that got out
17:09that were in critical condition
17:11that went to Children's Medical Center,
17:13but now the rest of the kids that are in there,
17:16there's no help for them.
17:17And do you have any idea how many of them are children?
17:20How many children?
17:21There's no way to tell.
17:23There's no way.
17:23Parts of the building there is.
17:26The third and the fourth floor are in the basement.
17:29Second and third and fourth floor are in the basement.
17:32The man that fell that was on the fourth floor
17:34and the floor just, the floor dropped out from him.
17:37So if you've got four floors of devastation to go through,
17:41it's going to take you a long time.
17:43It's not like an earthquake hitting.
17:45They're working inch by inch
17:47to get the rubble and the concrete and the steel
17:50off of these people,
17:51and they're just going,
17:52it's a slow, tedious process right now.
17:55When you say it's not like an earthquake hitting,
17:56you mean it's more severe and more profound.
17:58Right, right.
18:00I lived through the San Francisco earthquake,
18:03and this isn't like it at all.
18:06The building, there's no comparison.
18:08This building has been torn and ripped apart
18:11from the inside out on that one side.
18:14In an earthquake, it breaks into large pieces.
18:18This is in small chunks.
18:19There's bolts of the building
18:22over a city block,
18:24you know, down the street.
18:27Parking meters are in the middle of the street.
18:30Pieces of cars are in there.
18:33Good evening.
18:34It is now clear to the investigators
18:35that the enormous explosion
18:37at a federal building in Oklahoma City this morning
18:39was the work of terrorists.
18:41The bomb went off
18:42just as hundreds of people had showed up for work,
18:45just as children had been dropped off
18:47at a daycare center on the second floor.
18:50In one devastating moment,
18:51the whole front side of the building was ripped away.
18:54There is simply no way to be specific
18:56about how many people have lost their lives.
18:58But the death toll is clearly increasing
19:00as the hours go by,
19:02and emergency teams worked their way
19:04through the devastation.
19:06We do know that 17 children were killed
19:08in the daycare center, others injured.
19:11It was easy to see why the governor of Oklahoma said
19:14this was the work of animals.
19:17Our first report is from Aaron Hayes,
19:19who is on the scene.
19:23Most people were already inside at work here
19:26when the blast ripped the nine-story
19:28federal office building apart,
19:30shattering floors and the offices inside.
19:33Most devastating of all,
19:35the daycare center on the second floor destroyed.
19:38That was where most of the children
19:40who were killed had been.
19:41We pulled probably, I guess we pulled six dead babies out
19:50and a couple of dead women.
19:53It's just the most devastating thing.
19:54When the officers fell,
19:55they just, everything fell on top of us.
19:56It's the most devastating thing
19:57I've ever seen in my life.
19:59It's just like an atomic bomb went off.
20:01The ceiling went in
20:02and all the windows came in.
20:04I didn't know if it was a tornado or an earthquake.
20:07The whole building shook
20:09and then everything just started crashing down
20:11on top of you
20:12and you just kind of hit the floor
20:14and waited till it all stopped.
20:16This is the main triage area.
20:18For hours, the scene here remained chaotic.
20:21People injured by exploding glass and debris
20:23stood dazed, looking for help.
20:26It was difficult to find enough ambulances
20:28to take care of all of them.
20:29I've never experienced anything like it.
20:40You feel a concussion
20:41and then basically you know
20:43you're on the floor covered in glass.
20:47Probably lost conscience for just a few seconds,
20:49you know, but it was really amazing.
20:54Authorities now say
20:55it appears to have been a car bomb
20:57in a vehicle parked in front of the federal building
20:59that caused the explosion.
21:01The force from it damaged buildings nearby
21:03and was felt 30 miles away.
21:06Rescue work has made it clear
21:07just how much damage was done.
21:10Whole sections of floors collapsed.
21:13You can see on the upper floors
21:14in one of those offices
21:15there are some people trapped up there.
21:17They were up there for quite some time
21:18while we were there.
21:19You can see the firefighter there
21:20climbing up a ladder
21:21trying to get as close as possible
21:23to those people
21:23but he was shy about two floors.
21:25Very frustrating for him, I'm sure.
21:26Just no way to get up there.
21:27It has taken all afternoon
21:29for rescuers to recover bodies here.
21:32People were trapped inside for hours
21:34and some are still, believe, trapped here.
21:39We've got some people alive
21:40that are trapped beneath rubble
21:42that is kind of pancake land and angle
21:45and it's going to take
21:45some very large, heavy equipment
21:47to assist us in moving that
21:49so we can get to some of the people.
21:52Outside, friends and family
21:53of those who worked here
21:55searched for them amidst the confusion.
21:57Emergency workers were overwhelmed.
21:59For a long time,
22:00there was no one to explain
22:01what had happened
22:02or who had survived it.
22:04We've got a lot of
22:05little rocky things getting our way.
22:06We found a rocket
22:08that was in a bunker
22:09inside the building
22:10that had fallen down
22:11and the bomb squad
22:12took care of that.
22:14But again,
22:15we're just systematically
22:16going through the building.
22:16We do still have people,
22:18survivors inside the building
22:19that we are attempting
22:20to get out this time.
22:21I just woke up
22:22and I was covered with glass.
22:24I didn't know
22:24what was going on.
22:26I just got out.
22:27They came out and looked
22:29and I saw all of this black smoke
22:31and everything
22:31and I ran up here
22:32when I saw all of the injured children.
22:35Oh, oh, oh!
22:37As a precaution,
22:39all of the city's state
22:40and federal workers
22:41were sent home.
22:42Buildings around
22:42the explosion site evacuated.
22:44Let's get children
22:48with everybody else
22:49because we can elect.
22:50On the side.
22:51With workers still
22:52sifting through debris,
22:54it is unclear
22:55when this section
22:56of the city
22:56might return to normal.
23:00Bombing in Oklahoma City
23:01was an attack
23:03on innocent children
23:05and defenseless citizens.
23:09It was an act of cowardice
23:11and it was evil.
23:14The United States
23:17will not tolerate it
23:19and I will not allow
23:21the people of this country
23:22to be intimidated.
23:24Two suspects
23:25now have been identified
23:26known only as John Doe.
23:28They're both about 5'10 to 5'11,
23:30about 180 pounds,
23:32both with brown hair,
23:33one with a crew cut,
23:34the other with a tattoo.
23:36Those sketches were released
23:38as rescue workers
23:38worked their way
23:39through the wreckage
23:40of the Murrah Federal Building
23:41looking for survivors
23:43among the close to 200 people
23:44believed to be still
23:46in that rubble.
23:47Authorities now believe
23:48the truck that bore the bomb
23:49was parked in a space
23:50alongside the Federal Building.
23:52A second vehicle
23:53may have been nearby
23:54to permit the bombers
23:55to escape.
23:56The FBI said today
23:57it was a huge explosion
23:59and that the explosive used
24:00was most likely
24:01a simple combination
24:02of fertilizer
24:03and fuel oil.
24:05The indictment charges
24:06that Timothy McVeigh
24:07and Terry Nichols,
24:09former Army buddies
24:10with a grudge
24:10against the government,
24:11planned the bombing,
24:12selected the Murrah Federal Building
24:14in Oklahoma City
24:14as their target,
24:16bought and stole materials
24:17for the bomb
24:18and built it.
24:19McVeigh is specifically charged
24:20with having delivered the bomb
24:23to the Murrah Building
24:24in a truck that he rented
24:25under a false name
24:26and having detonated the bomb
24:28at the Murrah Building.
24:30I intend to recommend
24:31to the Department of Justice
24:32and the Attorney General
24:33of the United States
24:34that the death penalty
24:35be sought
24:36against both McVeigh
24:37and Nichols.
24:39Timothy McVeigh, guilty.
24:41Guilty of murder,
24:42guilty of conspiracy,
24:43guilty on all 11 federal charges
24:45that he faced
24:46in the Oklahoma City bombing trial.
24:48His conviction comes
24:49a little more than two years
24:51after a massive bomb
24:52shattered the Murrah Federal Building,
24:54killing 168 people,
24:56including 19 children.
24:58It was the worst terrorist act
24:59in American history
25:00and Timothy McVeigh
25:02could now be sentenced to death.
25:04This morning,
25:04the United States of America
25:06carried out the severest sentence
25:08for the gravest of crimes.
25:12The victims of the Oklahoma City bombing
25:14have been given not vengeance,
25:16but justice.
25:19And one young man
25:20met the fate he chose for himself
25:22six years ago.
25:24For the survivors of the crime
25:28and for the families of the dead,
25:32the pain goes on.
25:34Final punishment of the guilty
25:36cannot alone
25:37bring peace to the innocent.
25:41It cannot recover the loss
25:43or balance the scales,
25:46and it is not meant to do so.
25:49Today, every living person
25:53who was hurt
25:53by the evil done
25:54in Oklahoma City
25:55can rest in the knowledge
25:58that there has been
25:59a reckoning.
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