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The Ryder Truck at 9:02: McVeigh, the Murrah Building, and What Survived

The Ryder Truck at 9:02: McVeigh, the Murrah Building, and What Survived

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At 9:02 AM on April 19, 1995, a Ryder truck detonated outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, and the largest domestic terrorist attack in American history began its long unfinished aftermath. One hundred and sixty-eight people died. Nineteen of them were children in the America's Kids daycare on the second floor. Of all the children inside that morning, only six survived.

This episode follows the bombing from the inside out — the building, the people in it, and the ideology that put the truck there. Timothy McVeigh was twenty-six years old, a decorated Gulf War veteran, and completely committed to what he believed. His target date, April 19, was chosen deliberately: exactly two years after the federal siege at Waco ended in fire and eighty deaths. McVeigh had driven to Waco during the standoff. He came away convinced the government had executed American citizens and paid no price. Oklahoma City was his retaliation.

The network behind McVeigh — Elohim City, the militia movement, the anti-government radicalism that flowed from Ruby Ridge and Waco — didn't disappear when he was executed in 2001. It evolved. This episode examines the survivors who carry the bombing in their bodies and their silences, the children orphaned by a man who called them collateral damage, and the ideological blueprint he left behind that others have since followed.

Thirty children were orphaned entirely. Two hundred and nineteen lost at least one parent. Those numbers are easy to state. What they describe takes longer to hold.

This episode includes AI-generated content.
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