This is the first in a series of stories about mcveigh and the oklahoma city bombing the buffalo news. Murrah federal building in oklahoma city, killing 168 people. Images from the oklahoma city bombing the oklahoma city bombing occurred when a truck packed with explosives was detonated on april outside the alfred p. The oklahoma city bombing and the trial of timothy mcveigh by. S justice department, supreme court nominee merrick garland oversaw the investigation that led to the convictions of timothy mcveigh and terry nichols for planning.
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