The Oklahoma City Bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building

	Sign In Sign-Up

April 19, 1995, at 09:02 a.m.

It was a beautiful spring morning, my husband was cooking us bacon and eggs for breakfast,
I was sitting at the kitchen table, bird watching...lol. We live about 20 miles from Oklahoma City in a small town.
Parents had just dropped their children off at the day care center in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in
downtown Oklahoma City. The employees had just sat down at their desks to begin their workday.
All of a sudden our house shook, I ran outside to see if someone's propane tank had exploded.
Not being able to find out what had happened, I went back into the house.
My husband and I were talking about what might of made the house shake,
when it came on the television......it was astounding and I couldn't believe it. My heart just dropped.

A bomb inside a Ryder Moving Truck had exploded outside of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building,
the blast obliterated half of the nine-story building, killing 168 people, many of them children.
That one day effected a lot of lives, not just the families of the victims.

Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building Murrah Building

Oklahoma City National Memorial

The federal building was constructed in 1977 and was named after federal Judge Alfred P. Murrah, an Oklahoma native.
The building contained offices for the U.S. Secret Service, (ATF) Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, Human Services,
(D.E.A.) Drug Enforcement Agency, Department of Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Marine Corps Recruiting, U.S. Postal Sorting Station,
U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Customs Office, U.S. Department of Labor, Veterans Administration, U.S. Army Recruiting Battalion,
Federal Highway Administration, Federal Employees Credit Union, Defense Security Services, America's Kid's Child-Care, General Accounting,
Social Security Administration, General Services Administration.

Everyone who died in this tragedy was someone. Maybe they were a mother, a father, a wife, a husband, a son, a daughter, a co-worker, or a friend. They all had a story and a life that was cut short, don't just look at the names, think of them as real people because that is just what they are.

• Lucio Aleman Jr. • Teresa Alexander • Richard Allen • Ted Allen • Baylee Almon • Diane E. Althouse • Rebecca Anderson • Pamela Cleveland Argo • Saundra "Sandy" Avery • Peter Avillanoza • Calvin Battle • Peola Battle • Danielle Bell • Oleta Biddy • Shelly Turner Bland • Andrea Y. Blanton • Olen Bloomer • Lola Renee Bolden • James E. Boles • Mark A. Bolte • Cassandra Kay Booker • Carol Louise Bowers • Peachlyn Bradley • Woodrow "Woody" Clifford Brady • Cynthia Lynn (Campbell) Brown • Paul G. Broxterman • Gabreon DeShawn Lee Bruce • Kimberly Ruth Burgess • David N. Burkett • Donald Earl Burns Sr. • Karen Gist Carr • Michael Joe Carrillo • Rona Linn Chafey • Zackary Chavez • Robert N. Chipman • Kimberly Kay Clark • Dr. Margaret Louise "Peggy" Clark • Antonio Ansara Cooper Jr. • Dana Cooper • Christopher Cooper • Harley Richard Cottingham • Kim R. Cousins • Aaron Coverdale • Elijah Coverdale • Jaci Rae Coyne • Katherine Louise "Kathy" Cregan • Richard Leroy Cummins • Steven Douglas Curry • Brenda Daniels • Benjamin L. Davis • Diana Lynn Day • Peter L. DeMaster • Castine Brooks Hearn Deveroux • Sheila R. Gigger Driver • Tylor Eaves • Ashley Megan Eckles • Susan Ferrell • Carroll "Chip" June Fields • Katherine Ann Finley • Judy Fisher • Linda Louise Florence • Donald Lee Fritzler • Mary Anne Fritzler • Tevin Garrett • Laura (Washington) Garrison • Jamie Lee Genzer • Margaret Betterton Goodson • Kevin "Lee" Gottshall II • Ethel Griffin • Colleen Guiles • Randy Guzman • Cheryl Bradley Hammons • Ronald Vernon Harding • Thomas Lynn Hawthorne Sr. • Doris Adele Higginbottom • Anita Hightower • Gene Hodges Jr. • Peggy Louise Holland • Linda Coleen Housley • George Michael Howard • Wanda Lee Howell • Robbin A. Huff • Dr. Charles Hurlburt • Anna Jean Hurlburt • Paul Douglas Ice • Christi Jenkins • Norma Jean Johnson • Raymond Johnson • Larry J. Jones • Alvin Justes • Blake Ryan Kennedy • Carole Khalil • Valerie Koelsch • Carolyn Ann Kreymborg • Teresa Lea Lauderdale • Catherine Mary "Kathy" Leinen • Carrie Ann Lenz • Donald Ray Leonard • Lakesha R. Levy • Dominique London • Rheta Ione (Bender) Long • Michael Loudenslager • Aurelia Donna • Robert L. Luster Jr. • Mickey Maroney • James Martin • Rev. Gilberto Martinez • James A. McCarthy • Kenneth Glenn McCullough • Betsy Janice McGonnell • Linda Gail McKinney • Cartney Jean McRaven • Claude Medearis • Claudette Meek • Frankie Ann Merrell • Derwin Miller • Eula Leigh Mitchell • John C. Moss III • Patricia Nix • Jerry Lee Parker • Jill Diane Randolph • Michelle Reeder • Terry S. Rees • Mary L. Rentie • Antonio "Tony" Reyes • Kathryn Elizabeth Ridley • Trudy Rigney • Claudine Ritter • Christine Nicole Rosas • Sonja Lynn Sanders • Lanny L. Scroggins • Kathy Lynn Seidl • Leora Lee Sells • Karan Shepherd • Colton Wade Smith • Chase Dalton Smith • Victoria Lee Sohn • John T. Stewart • Dolores M. Stratton • Emilio Rangel Tapia • Victoria J. Texter • Charlotte Andrea Lewis Thomas • Michael George Thompson • Virginia Thompson • Kayla Titsworth • Rick T. Tomlin • LaRue Treanor • Luther Treanor • Larry L. Turner • Jules Valdez • John K. VanEss • Johnny Allen Wade • David Jack Walker • Robert Walker Jr. • Wanda Watkins • Michael Don Weaver • Julie Marie Welch • Robert Westberry • Alan G. Whicher • Jo Ann Whittenberg • Frances Williams • Scott Williams • William Stephen Williams • Clarence Eugene Wilson • Sharon Louise Wood-Chesnut • Ronota Ann Woodbridge • Tresia Worton • John A. Youngblood.

Our prayers are with all the victims of this horrible crime.

NOTIFY ME OF ANY OTHER LINKS I SHOULD ADD

Oklahoma City bombing From Wikipedia encyclopedia

Visit some very interesting PERSONAL STORIES of the Bombing
Tour of Tragedies
A police officer's
Red Cross Caseworker

Oklahoma City National Memorial
On May 23, 1995 the Murrah building was imploded and a Memorial was built.
We come here to remember those who were killed, those who survived and those changed forever.
May all who leave here know the impact of violence.
May this memorial offer comfort, strength, peace, hope and serenity.

These links question the bombing!
Jayna Davis Investigative Reporter, Channel 4 News
Don't miss Jayna Davis Biography
Oklahoma City Bombing, The Terrorist Motel

The above links may or may not work, they did when I made the page.

11841