The attack came without warning, at a little after 9 a.m. local time, on April 19, 1995.
A 7,000 pound bomb, made of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil and packed in the cargo hold of a rented Ryder truck, blew up outside the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City. The blast was so powerful that it was heard or felt for miles; at ground zero, the bomb tore into the North facade of the federal building, collapsing floors and carving out a debris-filled crater 8 feet deep.
In all, 168 people were killed, including 19 children, in what remains the deadliest attack of home-grown terrorism in American history.
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