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Oklahoma City bombing The remains of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S., destroyed by a terrorist truck bomb on April 19, 1995.

Oklahoma City bombing

terrorist attack, Oklahoma, United States [1995]
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John Philip Jenkins
Distinguished Professor of History, Baylor University. Author of A History of the United States, Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in America, Synthetic Panics: The Symbolic...
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Oklahoma City bombing, terrorist attack in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S., on April 19, 1995, in which a massive homemade bomb composed of more than two tonnes of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and fuel oil concealed in a rental truck exploded, heavily damaging the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. A total of 168 people were killed, including 19 children, and more than 500 were injured. The building was later razed, and a park was built on the...

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