The Face of Domestic Terrorism: Timothy McVeigh

De: Ignacio Esteban

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols planned and executed the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in United States history at the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. These two anti-government extremists used close to 5,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate fuel oil (ANFO) in their domestic attack using a Ryder truck that was parked by McVeigh in front of the federal building. He would use a fuse to detonate the bomb inside the truck killing 168 people, injuring over 600, destroying the building and damaging others in a 16-block radius causing over 600 million dollars in damages.
This heinous act committed by McVeigh and Nichols would lead to their arrest, conviction and sentence. On June 11, 2001, McVeigh was executed by lethal injection at the U.S. federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. Nichols received a life sentence for his role in this gruesome attack.
What drove McVeigh to commit this unspeakable act of violence towards innocent people killing nearly twenty children in the buildings’ day care center? He was a decorated Army Gulf War veteran and became very angry against the U.S. government for their roles in Ruby Ridge and Waco and wanted to inspire a violent uprising against what he saw as a tyrannical government. This is the life of Timothy McVeigh from war veteran to the worst domestic terrorist in U.S. history.