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Days That Shaped America (2018) Season 1 Episode 4 - Oklahoma City Bombing
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00:00It was an act of cowardice, and it was evil.
00:18We saw a plume of black smoke.
00:21We could tell that it was something really big.
00:24The whole area seemed to be on fire.
00:27It felt like my head was exploding.
00:31Everything went black, and I was falling.
00:33I was falling three floors.
00:36My daughter's in that building.
00:39I don't even know what to do.
00:41They had found another explosive device.
00:45I looked at the faces of these people, and all I could see was fear.
00:52I remember hearing this woman screaming so loud right in my ear,
00:56Jesus, help me, Jesus, help me, and then me realizing that that was my voice.
01:00That was me screaming.
01:02I've never seen that much devastation and destruction at one scene.
01:06Good morning, and happy Wednesday to everyone.
01:23It is shaping up to be a very nice day in Oklahoma City.
01:27Clear skies across the metro area, with temperatures expected to reach a high in the low 60s by early this afternoon.
01:32I remember the morning of April 19th.
01:43It was a perfect spring day in Oklahoma.
01:46At the time, I was living in southwest Oklahoma City with my wife, Cheryl, and our son, Ryan.
01:55Ryan was two years old.
01:57I got up around 5 a.m., grabbed all my stuff for the fire station, and headed to work.
02:02I loved the fire department.
02:04I always wanted to be a firefighter.
02:05I grew up around firemen, and I loved the way they reached out and helped people.
02:09I guess that was kind of my big thing in life, was just being there for people if they needed it.
02:16I walked into the fire station.
02:19Some of the guys from the other shift were already up, drinking their coffee.
02:22Relieved the guy I was supposed to relieve, put my stuff on the rig, and just settled in for a normal day at the fire station.
02:27That morning, I woke up early because I needed to catch a ride to downtown Oklahoma City to go to work.
02:40I remember as I was going in, looking at all the red buds in bloom.
02:43It was a beautiful spring morning.
02:47I had been living in Oklahoma City for seven years.
02:50I was having a difficult time finding my way in life, quite honestly.
02:55I felt like a failure in a lot of respects.
02:57I'd gained about 200 pounds.
02:59I'd flunked out of college.
03:01I felt really disappointed with the way my life had turned out.
03:05My brothers and sisters all had degrees and successful careers, and I couldn't even make it through college.
03:11So I got a job working as a teller at Federal Employees Credit Union in the Alphra P. Murrah Federal Building,
03:17and tried to work hard and apply myself there.
03:23I was 22 years old, and my daughter Bailey had just turned one.
03:30I got pregnant and decided that I was going to raise her on my own.
03:34It wasn't a hard decision to make.
03:36I mean, I was really excited.
03:38Bailey and I were really, really close because it was just the two of us.
03:43I lived in the Regency Tower apartment building, kind of catty-cornered.
03:47To the Alphra P. Murrah Federal Building, that's where Bailey went to the daycare center in the Federal Building.
03:54It was just a place that I felt she was the safest.
03:58They had a good environment.
04:00That morning, I was able to get her ready and take her to the daycare center.
04:04She got there between 7.30 and 7.45, and then I went on to work.
04:08I got to work just before 8 o'clock in the morning, and I was excited because I was getting ready to close on my very first house.
04:22I went up to the credit union and visited with all my friends, showing pictures of the house,
04:27then going over and seeing one of our bosses, talking to her about planting daffodils in the new house.
04:33And then I thought, okay, I have wasted an entire hour of my day just chatting.
04:37I better get to work before I get in trouble.
04:39So I hurried up down the hall, and I went and sat down at my desk.
04:55My co-worker, Robin Huff, came in.
04:58Before I could even say anything, that's when it happened.
05:09It was so loud.
05:10It was so powerful.
05:11My first thought was that someone had walked into the credit union and tried to rob us, and they shot me in the back of the head.
05:20It felt like my head was exploding.
05:22Everything went black, and I felt this powerful rushing sensation, like I was falling.
05:27And I was falling.
05:28I was falling three floors.
05:31I remember hearing this woman screaming so loud right in my ear, Jesus, help me, Jesus, help me.
05:36And then me realizing that that was my voice.
05:39That was me screaming.
05:42Standing in the kitchen area at the fire station, we heard a loud explosion or a loud boom.
05:48The windows rattled.
05:50There's railroad tracks that ran by the fire station, so initially we thought maybe a train derailed.
05:55From the daycare center to my office, it's about a 15-minute drive.
06:00We could feel a rumble, and it felt like thunder.
06:05When we looked to the south, we saw a large plume of black smoke.
06:10We could tell that it was something really big.
06:12Within two minutes after the initial explosion, we were in our rigs and on our way to downtown
06:19Oklahoma City.
06:22I was sitting in a chair in the doctor's office.
06:26The moment that it happened, the building swayed.
06:30We all immediately looked outside and saw the smoke begin to rise from downtown.
06:38I ran down the stairs, jumped in my car, and started heading towards downtown Oklahoma City.
06:44I'm Tammy Payne in the TV9 newsroom.
06:46If you are anywhere downtown, you probably heard it and felt it.
06:50An explosion of some kind.
06:51A plume of smoke rising in the air.
06:55There's debris, glass, building matter spread on several downtown blocks.
07:01We're going to stay with you here since we get information on injuries and exactly where
07:06this explosion took place.
07:08It came in on the radio that there's been an explosion downtown.
07:12We had a break room, and I went upstairs to look where the TV was, and I could see that
07:16it was the federal complex.
07:19I was like, my daughter's in that building.
07:28We had scheduled a golf tournament for law enforcement in Shawnee, Oklahoma, which is
07:33approximately 40 miles away from Oklahoma City.
07:37All of a sudden, my pager went off.
07:39It was my secretary.
07:41She said there's been some type of a bombing at the federal building.
07:46Then everybody else's pagers started going off.
07:50It became clear to me that this was serious, and I needed to immediately get back to Oklahoma
07:54City.
07:54I'm laying there.
08:03I can't move.
08:03I can't see anything, and it's just silent.
08:06I would try to stand up, but something heavy was on top of me and all around me.
08:11I was actually still in my chair and upside down under 10 feet of rubble.
08:16The third and fourth floors had broken off right on top of me.
08:22I couldn't see anything.
08:26I couldn't move.
08:28I couldn't really even feel my body.
08:30And I remember thinking, it's too late.
08:34I'm already dead.
08:35It wasn't until I heard a siren going off in the distance that I decided, I'm still alive.
08:44I tried to scream, but nobody answered.
08:47I remember there was this horrible smell, and it was very hot.
08:51My mouth was full of rubble.
08:54It felt like my teeth had broken inside my mouth.
08:56In that moment, the only word that I can use to describe what I felt is terror, and I was
09:02completely helpless.
09:08When we got to the corner of 5th and Broadway and made the turn onto 5th Street, there were
09:14so many people in the street.
09:15We basically had to stop the rig right there.
09:18We're seeing all these people running towards us.
09:20I looked at the faces of these people, and all I could see was fear.
09:24But we still haven't seen the Federal Building, so we really don't have a full view of what
09:30they're running from.
09:32We started walking and saw the Federal Building in its entirety for the first time.
09:41In my 31 years on the fire department, I've never seen that much devastation and destruction
09:46at one scene.
09:48The front of this building just sheared off, almost like when they open up those Barbie
09:54houses and you see the inside.
09:56You're looking at the floors sectioned off.
09:59Looking at the damage and looking at what we saw, in my mind, I probably wouldn't have
10:03been surprised if we didn't see any survivors that day.
10:05There is thick smoke still coming from the building and on the ground.
10:14There's heavy damage downtown.
10:15It's the Federal Building we're being told.
10:18My mic is open, is that correct?
10:20I drive as fast as I can to downtown.
10:23And the further I drive, the more damage I see.
10:25About 20 blocks north of the Federal Building, the glass, it's blown out of everything.
10:35I get as far as I can get into downtown Oklahoma City.
10:38I jump out of the car and begin to run towards what was the Federal Building.
10:45Wow.
10:46Holy cow.
10:48About a third of the building has been blown away.
10:51At about 9.20, I came face to face with the Federal Building.
10:54It was not anything that I could have imagined.
11:12Get some blankets on it.
11:14I'm going, this can't be real.
11:18And then you stop and go, it's real.
11:24Alfred Murray Federal Building is where this explosion occurred.
11:27And that building is devastated.
11:29Certainly, people that were in the rooms on that one side of the building, it would be unlikely they could survive.
11:36Nobody knew what you'd do next.
11:38So, I went into journalist mode.
11:43I connected up with a photographer and a live truck operator that by 9.30, I was live on the air.
11:50I still wasn't thinking it was a bomb.
11:52And the natural assumption in Oklahoma City was a natural gas explosion.
11:57It was just not in my brain that somebody would set off a bomb in downtown Oklahoma City.
12:10I had a friend that I worked with take me down towards the Federal Building.
12:16And she dropped me off about three blocks away because they had set up a perimeter by then.
12:22So, I had to walk the last three blocks by myself.
12:27By the time I got to the front of the building, I could see people walking around everywhere.
12:31And they just had blood all over them.
12:34It just felt like there was a war zone going on and I was in the middle of it.
12:38And I remember thinking, I don't see how anybody came out of that building and lived.
12:43I just needed to find out where Bailey was.
12:45The White House says President Clinton is very troubled by the explosion at the Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City.
12:55A daycare center was housed in the building and many children are among the dozens hurt.
12:59Hospitals put the number of injured now at more than 100.
13:02I saw a police officer and I asked him about the children that were in the daycare center in the Federal Building.
13:11And he didn't even realize that there was a daycare center in there.
13:16So, I walked around to the back side of the building where all the rescue workers were working.
13:21I found my sister, Amy.
13:23She was like, I'm looking for Bailey, but I can't find her.
13:26And I was like, me either.
13:26We decided to go on to St. Anthony's Hospital, which is the hospital where Bailey was born, to check and see if maybe Bailey was there.
13:43I could move my head just slightly to get a little bit of better airflow and became aware that there was something wrapped around my head that made it uncomfortable to breathe.
13:53It was actually the curtains that had been hanging in the Federal Building window.
14:00The more I laid there and tried to get some kind of bearing about where I was and how my body was positioned,
14:07I became aware that my foot was resting on something that, at the time, I was concerned was a wire.
14:14And not knowing what was going on and not being able to see anything, I was concerned about that wire being something that could electrocute me.
14:23I didn't know what my injuries were, but I felt my life was in danger.
14:29We were asked by Chief Mike Shannon to come to the south side of the building and start assisting over there.
14:42And before we got to the south side, a gentleman, and I can't tell you where he came from, where he stepped out of the building, or anything.
14:50He said he had a critical infant.
14:51He was holding a baby in his arms.
14:53And I stuck my arms out and said, here, I'll take the baby.
14:57He handed her to me, and he was gone.
15:02You know, I looked and listened for any signs of breath, checked for circulation or pulse, and I couldn't find any signs of life.
15:09She had a slight open skull fracture.
15:11And at that time, I knew that she wasn't alive.
15:20There was a photographer there.
15:23A picture was taken.
15:27Very safe to say that is one moment in my life that I will never forget.
15:32I saw the ambulance.
15:34I went over and told him I had an infant.
15:36The ambulance was full.
15:37One of the paramedics that was on the ambulance stated that, well, let me get a blanket, because we're not going to put that baby on the ground.
15:43And that, you know, it wasn't the first time I encountered a fatality on the fire department.
15:51I think it was just the, I guess, the fact that I had a two-year-old at home, got to head home.
15:58The main thing that kept going through my mind was, this is somebody's kid and their world.
16:11So, anyway, just thinking that their world was going to be turned upside down.
16:14This terrifying scene that we're now looking at together in Oklahoma City, the Alfred Murray Federal Complex there,
16:26it's a federal building that was the target of an explosion of some kind.
16:31We now believe that it was a bomb, although the ATF says there is no forensic evidence of that yet.
16:35When I arrived on the north side of the building, the whole area seemed to be affected and almost on fire.
16:46I knew it was something that we had never seen in this country before.
16:52This had taken place in the city I was responsible for protecting as the head of the FBI.
16:59I said a prayer for guidance and that I would be able to find justice for those who were so severely injured or killed.
17:17The FBI took control over the entire downtown area.
17:22We started to assemble an evidence response team, gathering up every bit of evidence that we could.
17:28We knew this was probably tons of explosive material.
17:33To assemble that, to plant it, to deliver it, to get away, did not appear to be a suicide bomb.
17:40All of that would require coordination of some form, we believe, with others.
17:45But we had no suspects.
17:50They now are up to 12 kids that they are treating at the Children's Trauma Center.
17:55The injuries are ranging from fair to critical right now.
17:58And they are taking patients right now from St. Anthony's, being diverted from St. Anthony's, who is full.
18:07When we got to St. Anthony's, Bailey's pediatrician, Dr. Beavers, who was actually outside, waiting on wounded people to come.
18:15He said, no, they're taking all the children to Children's Hospital.
18:18So, my sister and I walked.
18:22I remember walking about two or three miles because of all the perimeters that were set up.
18:26Down to the street.
18:27Down to that street.
18:28I remember getting to Children's Hospital and seeing a lot of the families, all the parents, that I remember seeing it dropping kids off at the daycare and stuff.
18:41They were waiting to find out about their loved ones.
18:46It was just awful.
18:47I was laying there, and I heard some men say, let's split up.
18:59Let's look for the daycare area.
19:00This is where the babies are.
19:02I remember laying there thinking, well, the daycare's on the second floor, and I work on the third floor.
19:07And I was confused by that, not realizing that we were all at the bottom.
19:11So, I began screaming my head off, and I heard a man say, I hear you.
19:15I hear you, child.
19:16How old are you?
19:17And I laid there thinking that I really wanted to tell him I was two years old.
19:21I was afraid he wasn't going to come get me when I told him how old I was.
19:25And I said, I'm sorry.
19:26I'm 27.
19:27And he said, that's okay.
19:28He started screaming, we have a live one.
19:30We have a live one.
19:31I need backup.
19:32I need help.
19:33Other people joined him, and I could hear the voices of other men.
19:35I felt such hope in hearing all these men getting closer and closer, and I could hear them moving things around, and they uncovered my right hand.
19:44And I thought, this is it.
19:46They're going to grab my hand, and one, two, three, they're going to pull me up and out.
19:49But then I heard another man's voice in the background, and this man was yelling, everybody out.
19:54There's another bomb.
19:55Let's go.
19:55Let's go.
19:56Get them back.
19:59We got a report that there was another bomb inside the building.
20:10So I had to order an evacuation of the building right in the middle of the rescue effort.
20:15I have my back to the federal building.
20:18I finish my live shot.
20:19I turn around.
20:20No more.
20:21Get back.
20:21And all of a sudden, people, instead of running to the building, they're running towards us.
20:27And I'm asking, why, why, why?
20:29And finally, there's a police officer.
20:31And I said, what?
20:32And he said, there's a second bomb.
20:34Get back now.
20:35Move, move, move.
20:36They're going to hot spies.
20:37Get them back.
20:39There was a call for all rescue workers, everybody to evacuate the building.
20:43Our line of work, they don't have to tell us why.
20:45They sound three-horned blasts.
20:47They tell us to evacuate.
20:48We evacuate the building.
20:49We understand now the danger is not over.
20:52They have discovered a second unexploded device on the scene.
20:56I began saying my name, tell my family I love them.
21:00And that was it.
21:02They left and I was alone.
21:04I went from truly thinking, I'm going to be rescued, to, no, you're not.
21:10You really are going to die.
21:12There's another bomb that's getting ready to go off.
21:15At that point, life began flashing before my eyes.
21:18I began thinking about how I'd let relationships fall away back home because of the weight that
21:23I'd gained, how I'd flunked out of college, how I was just floating through life, doing
21:29nothing to help other people, not really living life.
21:32I hadn't done anything, and now it was over.
21:35So I began praying.
21:36I began bargaining with God.
21:38I decided if I made it out alive, I was going to go back to school.
21:42I was going to do things to help other people.
21:44I was going to lose the weight.
21:46And all of a sudden, of all the weird things to do, I started to sing.
21:50I sang this chorus that we used to sing in church.
21:54I love you, Lord, and I lift my voice.
21:57And I remember when I began to sing, I felt an amazing peace.
22:02I truly thought, Obama's getting ready to go off and I'm going to die.
22:06But I was okay with it.
22:08At that point, I had made peace with God, and it was okay.
22:12We do know that at this point now, about an hour and a half after that original scare
22:20for the second explosive devices, just now, are they finally able to get the rescue workers
22:25and those who are helping in the evacuation getting back in close to the scene?
22:30The secondary explosive device turned out not to be a true bomb, but it was just a mock Scud missile.
22:38It was just for a display in a military office.
22:41It was very frustrating.
22:42You only have a very short period of time, normally, when you have a situation like this,
22:46for the rescue efforts to be successful.
22:49I heard men's voices returning, and once again, I was filled with hope.
22:56They're going to get me out.
23:03As the men worked on me, every now and then, I would ask,
23:05you guys are going to be able to get me out okay, right?
23:08And the lead firefighter would always answer the same way.
23:11Amy, we're going to do our best, which didn't really comfort me.
23:15There was an emergency physician on standby, and about every 20 minutes,
23:20she would talk to them about amputating my leg.
23:22I remember saying, okay, if you guys need to chop something off to get me out, chop it off.
23:28I wanted to live, even if it meant losing an arm or leg.
23:34I'm walking from our mobile command post,
23:36and about a block west, in front of the Regency Towers,
23:40there are a couple of agents there,
23:43and they're hovering around this metallic, large, dark object.
23:50They told me that a civilian saw this object flying in the air towards them,
23:56and they literally jumped out of the way.
23:59And they say, we believe this is the rear axle out of a truck.
24:05Based on the damage, we did not believe it was possible
24:08that it would be like an individual walking up and just putting a bomb there.
24:13We believed it was some sort of a truck.
24:17I knew this was the first major break that we had had in this case.
24:27Casualties, very hard to say.
24:28Certainly approaching 100 in terms of injuries,
24:31many of them critical, fatalities.
24:33A number of reports, none of them absolutely confirmed yet,
24:36including one report that six children were killed in this explosion.
24:44At Children's Hospital, we told her that we were looking for Bailey.
24:47A nurse got on the phone and called,
24:49and she said, there's a child that sounds like Bailey at St. Anthony's,
24:55the first hospital we were at.
24:56I kept thinking, she's going to be okay,
25:00even if I find her and she's hurt.
25:03She's still going to be okay,
25:04because this is not going to happen.
25:10So we got back to St. Anthony's,
25:12and I saw my pediatricians and our nursing associate
25:15on the phone with Dr. Beavers.
25:20She said, Dr. Beavers wants you to wait,
25:22and he's going to go check and see.
25:24And I said, is she dead?
25:27And she goes, no, we don't know anything.
25:29We don't even know if she's here.
25:30I said, okay.
25:32And about 10 minutes later,
25:35Dr. Beavers walked around the corner with the priest,
25:39and I knew then that Bailey was gone.
25:46He took me down to the morgue to see her,
25:49and I stopped at the door.
25:51And I didn't go in, but my dad,
25:52my dad went in to identify her.
25:56The day before the bombing was Bailey's first birthday,
26:00and I remember packing all her presents away.
26:04I remember thinking she didn't even get to play
26:06with any of her presents.
26:09She's got plenty of time.
26:13She just didn't.
26:15Today's bomb blast at the federal building
26:24in downtown Oklahoma City.
26:26Fire department officials say a number of people
26:28are, believe, trapped alive in a damaged building.
26:30Many of them still may be children.
26:33They say they can see the people,
26:35but they can't get to them.
26:36The entire time I was buried,
26:41I couldn't see anything.
26:42I had no idea what progress was being made.
26:45I did not know that I was going to be free
26:48until the moment they said,
26:49Amy, we're going to count to three,
26:51and this is probably going to hurt.
26:53And they counted to three,
26:55and they pulled,
26:57and I came out from under the rubble.
27:02I felt enormous relief
27:06and also enormous pain.
27:08My body was alive,
27:09but it hurt.
27:12I was basically buried alive
27:14for over six hours.
27:16I remember looking around
27:17and thinking this is not real.
27:20This is like something in a movie.
27:21My rescuers took great pains
27:25to carry me out of the building
27:27in a way that I would not see
27:30some of the carnage
27:31that would have been something
27:33that would have haunted me to this day.
27:35And I'm very grateful
27:36for them taking that extra care
27:38to make sure that I didn't see
27:40some of those things.
27:43We have had hundreds,
27:46if not thousands,
27:47of leads from individuals calling in
27:51to reputed eyewitnesses.
27:53Each one of those
27:54is treated very seriously.
27:56But at this point,
27:57we cannot speculate
27:58with regard to who is responsible.
28:02When we found the rear axle,
28:04we used,
28:05it's called a secret VIN number.
28:07It's been that way
28:08because it used to be a secret,
28:09but obviously it's no secret anymore.
28:11They were able to identify
28:14this particular VIN
28:17as coming from a Ryder truck
28:19rented from Elliot's Body Shop
28:21a couple of days before
28:23in Junction City, Kansas.
28:27By a gentleman
28:28who went by the name
28:29of Robert Bob Kling.
28:31We had no idea
28:32who a Robert Kling was
28:34or whether Robert Kling
28:35was a real person,
28:36but at least we had a name.
28:38We had a driver's license.
28:41So we had at least something
28:42to try to identify
28:44who this particular individual might be.
28:49The bombing in Oklahoma City
28:51was an attack on innocent children
28:55and defenseless citizens.
28:58The United States
29:00will not tolerate it.
29:02And I will not allow
29:04the people of this country
29:05to be intimidated
29:06by evil cowards.
29:10Pray for the people
29:11of Oklahoma City.
29:13May God's grace be with them.
29:18Throughout the rest of the day,
29:19they brought in search dogs
29:21looking for any survivors.
29:23And these dogs are just,
29:25I mean, just wearing themselves out,
29:27looking and looking and looking.
29:28And these dogs would search
29:32so long they wouldn't find anybody.
29:33They'd get depressed.
29:35I know that sounded strange,
29:39but they would have a firefighter
29:41maybe just hide around the corner
29:44or lay down or hide
29:45so this dog could find somebody alive.
29:52There was a lot of change
29:53from the morning to the evening.
29:55It was more of a recovery mode
29:57instead of a rescue mode.
29:59There were certain areas
30:00where stuff couldn't be moved
30:01because of the stability
30:03of the building.
30:04So you would mark it
30:07with spray paint.
30:08If it was an X,
30:09if you located a victim,
30:10that was pretty much
30:11what we did
30:13the rest of the day.
30:16You're emotionally drained.
30:18You're beating yourself up
30:19because our job
30:22is to find people
30:23and rescue them
30:23and we weren't able to do that.
30:25The next morning
30:35when I woke up,
30:36I remember thinking,
30:37I don't even know
30:38what I'm going to do today.
30:40Oh, I have anybody
30:41to take care of.
30:43I don't even know what to do.
30:45I was so young.
30:46I was 22.
30:48And that's the time
30:49in your life
30:50when you're supposed
30:51to be finding out
30:51who you are.
30:52And I just didn't even
30:53know myself.
30:58I lost a lot more
30:59than just my daughter
31:00that day.
31:03And then I thought,
31:04I don't know
31:04what I'm going to do
31:05because I'm going to get up
31:06on the bed
31:07and I'm going to get dressed
31:08and I'm going to interact.
31:11I'm going to have to get up
31:13and face everybody.
31:15I remember walking
31:16into the living room
31:17and everybody was already awake.
31:21I kind of looked around
31:22and I found the newspaper
31:23and I saw the picture
31:26on the front of it.
31:28And I was like,
31:29that's Bailey.
31:30And they were like,
31:31we don't know that.
31:32We don't know
31:33that that's her not.
31:35And I was like,
31:35I do know.
31:37It was a firefighter.
31:39Holding her.
31:40When I saw the photo,
31:42I felt responsible for it.
31:43Like it was a moment
31:44that I took away
31:45from that baby's mom.
31:50So,
31:51my mom,
31:51I should hold her baby
31:52the last time,
31:52not me.
32:01Our agents
32:02in Junction City, Kansas
32:04were literally going
32:05door to door
32:06and hitting almost
32:07every business,
32:08every hotel,
32:09every motel.
32:09One agent,
32:10his assignment is to go
32:11to the Dreamland Motel.
32:14The agent talks
32:15to the owner
32:15and asks,
32:16has she seen anybody
32:17in here recently
32:19with a Ryder truck?
32:20And she says,
32:22actually, there was.
32:23She put him
32:24into room 25,
32:26which was the room
32:27closest to her office.
32:28Something about him
32:29bothered her
32:30and she wanted
32:30to keep an eye on him.
32:32When we looked
32:33at the hotel card,
32:36the name on the card
32:37was Timothy McVeigh
32:39and he gave an address
32:41in Decker, Michigan.
32:43We had done
32:45an artist's conception
32:46of the individual
32:47who had rented the truck.
32:50The owner said,
32:51that looks exactly
32:53like him
32:54and this is where
32:55the investigation
32:56now explodes.
33:03While I was
33:04in the hospital,
33:05I had a very large portion
33:06of my leg
33:07that had been cut out.
33:08I had cuts,
33:10lacerations,
33:11all over from head to toe
33:12and I was so sore,
33:15I could barely move.
33:17I had such hope
33:19that others
33:20were going to be rescued,
33:21but I would find out
33:22one by one
33:23that 18 of my 33
33:26co-workers were killed.
33:29You know,
33:29the physical injuries
33:30were nothing
33:31compared to the grief
33:34and the heartache
33:36of losing
33:38that many people.
33:42When we received
33:45the name Timothy McVeigh,
33:47we had no idea
33:48who this individual was.
33:50An agent was given
33:51the assignment
33:51to do a search
33:53of the name
33:54Timothy McVeigh.
33:55Agent Walt Lamar
33:56came running
33:58into my office
33:59and says,
34:01boss said,
34:02you're not going
34:02to believe it.
34:03Timothy McVeigh
34:04was arrested
34:05in Perry, Oklahoma
34:07approximately 70 minutes
34:10after the bomb went off.
34:12Charlie Hanger
34:16was a trooper
34:17with the Oklahoma
34:18Highway Patrol.
34:19He was en route
34:20to the bombing
34:21and was passed
34:23by an old Mercury
34:24and when he saw it,
34:26he noticed
34:26it did not have
34:27a license plate.
34:29He pulled this car over
34:31and he asked him
34:32to get out of the car.
34:33He noticed a bulge
34:35in his side,
34:37so he literally grabs him,
34:38controls the gun,
34:39takes it away from him
34:40and he took McVeigh
34:42into custody.
34:43Little did Charlie Hanger
34:45know that he was
34:46responsible for arresting
34:47the individual
34:48who had just committed
34:50the largest terrorist event
34:52in the history
34:53of the United States.
35:00Timothy McVeigh
35:01is getting ready
35:02to be bonded out.
35:03He's getting ready
35:04to go before the judge
35:05and to be let go.
35:08We immediately notify
35:09the sheriff
35:10to put a hold on him.
35:12I designate a team
35:13of FBI agents
35:14to get on a National Guard
35:16helicopter
35:17and immediately fly up
35:19to Perry, Oklahoma
35:20to secure
35:21Timothy McVeigh.
35:2327-year-old Timothy McVeigh
35:25was just brought out
35:25of the Noble County
35:26courthouse
35:27here in Perry, Oklahoma.
35:28They will chopper him
35:29to Oklahoma City
35:30as we understand it
35:31and then arraign him there.
35:33The address
35:34Timothy McVeigh gave
35:36at the Dreamland Motel
35:37led us to Terry Nichols.
35:40Terry Nichols' property,
35:42we found an enormous amount
35:43of evidence
35:44that connected
35:45Terry Nichols
35:46and Timothy McVeigh together.
35:48The evidence
35:49was just overwhelming.
35:51I first found out
35:58about Bailey's mom, Erin,
36:01when a local reporter
36:02got hold of me
36:03and said they knew
36:05who the mother was
36:06and that she wanted to meet.
36:07I was a nervous wreck.
36:10He came and he walked up
36:11and I hugged him
36:12and I was like,
36:13thank you so much.
36:15And I think it surprised him
36:16because I think
36:18that he thought
36:20that I would be upset
36:21because he wasn't able
36:22to save her.
36:24It put me at ease,
36:26I guess,
36:26knowing the way
36:27Erin felt about it.
36:29That she didn't, uh,
36:30she didn't hold me responsible
36:34or she didn't blame me
36:35or anything like that.
36:37She just said
36:39she appreciated
36:39the way I held her.
36:42She could tell
36:43that I was a dad.
36:47I was lucky
36:48that Bailey had Chris
36:51at that time.
36:54If everybody
36:55that lost somebody
36:57that day
36:57would have had
36:58a Chris Fields,
36:59they would have come out
37:00of the whole experience
37:03a little bit better.
37:06He's a hero
37:06for the person that he is,
37:08even outside
37:09of being a firefighter.
37:10immediately after the bombing,
37:19you began to see
37:21something happening
37:22in Oklahoma City.
37:23We call it
37:24the Oklahoma Standard.
37:25People came together
37:27in an amazing way
37:28to support each other.
37:30The Oklahoma Standard
37:31means
37:32if you need help,
37:33we will be there.
37:35Whatever happens,
37:37we will stand with you.
37:38During that time,
37:39just the response
37:41from volunteers
37:42and if you needed
37:43anything at the site,
37:44it was just crazy.
37:45They would have to go
37:45back on TV
37:46and say,
37:47quit bringing stuff.
37:48There was so much of it.
37:50Urban search and rescue teams
37:51were called into
37:52Oklahoma City
37:52moments after
37:54the bombing happened.
37:55They were placed
37:56in the convention center
37:58and every day
38:01volunteers would go down there
38:03to do the laundry,
38:04to make the beds,
38:05to put clean sheets
38:06on the beds.
38:07We had the restaurant
38:08association showing up
38:10three times a day
38:11to ensure that
38:12all the first responders
38:13would be properly fed.
38:17Timothy McVeigh
38:19created the opposite
38:20of what he had hoped
38:22to create.
38:24There wasn't
38:25the anti-government movement
38:28that occurred.
38:30It was a bringing together
38:33of a community
38:34and of a nation
38:35that he had not expected.
38:39You have lost
38:40too much,
38:42but you have not lost
38:44everything.
38:46And you have certainly
38:47not lost America.
38:51For we will stand with you.
38:53Those moments
39:07of seeing my life
39:23flashed before my eyes
39:24and those moments
39:25of thinking my life
39:25was over,
39:26it did change me.
39:29One of the first things
39:30I did is I decided
39:31I wanted to go back
39:32to school.
39:32So I went to school
39:33and I got my degree.
39:35I also realized
39:36for the first time
39:37in my life
39:37I wanted to be a mother.
39:39So in 1999,
39:41I gave birth
39:42to a beautiful baby boy.
39:45You think you know
39:46what love is
39:46until you have a child
39:47and then you really
39:48know what love is.
39:50And I began thinking
39:51about what really bothered
39:52me the most in my life
39:53and that was my weight.
39:54So I went to the gym
39:55and I thought
39:56this is the most horrible
39:57place I've ever been to.
39:59But I went,
39:59I made myself go
40:00and then
40:01we have a big marathon
40:03that honors
40:03the 168 people
40:05that were killed.
40:05And one year
40:06I was watching
40:07all the people
40:07cross the finish line.
40:08And I mean
40:09old, young, disabled
40:11and I'm thinking
40:12well they can do this,
40:13I can do this.
40:14So I learned to run
40:16and it was a very
40:18liberating experience.
40:20April 19th, 1995
40:22was for sure
40:23one of the hardest
40:24days of my life.
40:26But that promise
40:27I made,
40:28I will never live
40:28my life the same.
40:31I'm definitely
40:32not living my life
40:33the same.
40:46I never
40:53have gotten over it.
40:55I still miss Bailey
40:56every day
40:57and I still cry
40:57every day.
41:00But you just learn
41:01how to deal
41:02with it differently.
41:03You learn how
41:03to live through
41:04that pain.
41:06After the bombing
41:07I knew that
41:08I wanted to get married
41:09and I knew
41:10I wanted to have
41:10more kids.
41:12When Bella was born
41:13I was a mom again
41:15and I was able
41:16to take care
41:16of somebody
41:17like I was supposed
41:18to all along.
41:20Three years later
41:21I had Brooks
41:22and they know
41:22about Bailey
41:23and they love Bailey
41:24and they talk about her.
41:26We brought her
41:26along with us.
41:27I mean just like
41:28she's still here.
41:32Since meeting Aaron
41:33that day
41:33our families
41:34have grown close.
41:36We keep in touch
41:37quite a bit.
41:38We're still there
41:39for each other
41:40when we need it.
41:41That's what matters
41:42the most.
41:42I mean we're not
41:43really like friends
41:44we're more like family.
41:46She's a good mom.
41:47She's always involved
41:48with Bella and Brooks
41:49and all the things
41:50they do.
41:51Makes you kind of wonder
41:52what kind of person
41:53Bailey would have been.
41:55But uh...
41:57We always hope
42:06when you have children
42:07that they're good people
42:08and that they do something
42:09to make an impact
42:10on the world
42:11and Bailey did.
42:12Bailey had a legacy
42:13that was left behind.
42:15She changed people's lives
42:16and people would say
42:17you know I give my child
42:19an extra hug at night.
42:22Then seeing that picture
42:24is worth it to me.
42:25and I don't have to do something
42:38for me.
42:39We'll see you guys
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