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The Oklahoma City Bombing Investigation

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United StatesApril 19, 1995

On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a truck bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people including 19 children in the building's daycare center. It was the deadliest domestic terrorism attack in U.S. history until 9/11. McVeigh, motivated by anti-government ideology and anger over the Waco and Ruby Ridge incidents, was executed in 2001. His co-conspirator Terry Nichols received life in prison.