April 19, 2010: 15 years since the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building (MFB) in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma was bombed.
The story goes that Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols and a third unknown person(?), loaded a rental truck with 5 tons of fertilizer (ammonium nitrate), nitro methane fuel (some reports said it was diesel fuel), drove to the MFB, parked the truck in front of the building, set a fuse and left the truck. The truck exploded destroying the front of the building and killing 260 plus people. There were children in the building. The federal government allowed a day care facility in the building under pressure from rights and women’s groups. The presence of a day care facility in a federal building is still under question today.
AT&T had a building across the street from the MFB. AT&T had 24-hour cameras on both sides of the building overlooking the street in front of the building and also showing the MFB. After the bombing the tapes were given to the Federal Bureau of Intimidation (FBI). The tapes went missing shortly after the building was taken down, shipped to a local military base, burned, a fence placed around the rubble and a 24-hour security put on the site.
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