At 8:57, a security camera captures an image of McVeigh’s Ryder truck being parked outside the Murrah Building in a handicapped zone. At 8:55 a.m., a security camera captures the Ryder truck as it heads towards downtown Oklahoma City, a sighting bolstered by three people leaving the building who later say they saw the truck parked in front of the Murrah Building around this time. from his overnight stop in Ponca City, Oklahoma the details reported of his entrance into the city vary (see 7:00 a.m. Įntering the City - McVeigh drives into Oklahoma City, entering around 8:30 a.m. It is in this driveway that McVeigh parks his truck. The entire building’s facade on this side is made of glass, allowing passersby to see into the offices in the building, as well as into the America’s Kids day care center on the second floor, which by this time is filling with children. It encompasses an entire city block, between 5th and 4th Streets and Harvey and Robinson Streets, and features a U-shaped, indented drive on 5th that allows for quick pickup and delivery parking. The Murrah Federal Building houses a number of federal agencies, including offices for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) the Social Security Administration the Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Veterans Affairs, and Agriculture departments and the Secret Service. The fuse is attached to a much faster-burning detonation cord (“det cord”) which ignites the fertilizer and fuel-oil mixture. The bomb is detonated by a slow-burning safety fuse, most likely lit by hand.
Investigators will find that the bomb is constructed of some 5,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil, carried in 20 or so blue plastic 55-gallon barrels arranged inside a rented Ryder truck (see April 15, 1995). Initially, many believe that no American set off the bomb, and suspect Islamist terrorists of actually carrying out the bombing (see 10:00 a.m. Timothy McVeigh, later convicted in the bombing, has ideological roots both in the Patriot world and among neo-Nazis like William Pierce, whose novel, The Turner Diaries (see 1978), served as a blueprint for the attack. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people in America’s worst domestic terrorist attack.
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