Timothy Mcveigh's Domestic Bombing

The Domestic Bombing The federal building in Oklahoma City had exploded in April of 1995 due to domestic terrorists. After the bomb detonated major damage was done to people and buildings, after some time we saw the terrorists’ get sentenced. This event was the worst terrorist attack on u.s soil until September 11, 2001 (Jenkins, 2001). At nine in the morning was when a rental truck was used as the method of explosion, as it was what contained the bombs. The explosion blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building with many events had followed soon after. Calculating the death count, property damage, and the arresting of the terrorists’ to take them in for questioning were the actions made. Once everything was settled police were able to check

McVeigh had even served in a war, which was the Persian Gulf War yet he goes to bomb the federal building in Oklahoma City a few years later. McVeigh seemed to be leading the entire attack when the bombing took place. It’s not easily understood why he did what he did but, he was a hero to our nation and we were betrayed by him on that terrible day in history. McVeigh wasn’t alone while he did this, he had the help of a man named Terry Nichols, another domestic terrorist who was involved in the bombing as well as an accomplice. Nichols, who today is serving a life sentence in prison, makes claims and persists that he is not a terrorist, states that he was trying to expose others (Ridley,

Nichols was charged with eight counts of involuntary manslaughter from the explosion he was involved in at Oklahoma City over twenty years ago. McVeigh was sentenced to death row for the murders of hundreds of people including the unsuspecting children in the federal building daycare. McVeigh had even admitted that he was unaware that there was a daycare within the structure, he even goes as far to state: "If I had known there was an entire day care center, it might have given me pause to switch targets. That's a large amount of collateral damage,"(Gorman, 2015). On June 11, 2001 was the day that Timothy McVeigh had been executed for his crimes but, not before spending around six years in death row. McVeigh had been executed by lethal injection with his last meal being a bit odd, two pints of mint chocolate ice