On April 19, 1995, American anti-government extremist Timothy McVeigh, assisted by Terry Nichols, detonated a makeshift bomb stored in a rental truck parked in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Bu
The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building two days after the bombing, viewed from across the adjacent parking lot
McVeigh and Nichols cited the federal government's actions against the Branch Davidian compound in the 1993 Waco siege (shown above) as a reason why they perpetrated the Oklahoma City bombing.
Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
An aerial view, looking from the north, of the destruction
Louis Joseph Freeh is an American attorney and former judge who served as the fifth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from September 1993 to June 2001.
Freeh speaks at the farewell ceremony of outgoing Director Robert Mueller in 2013
Former FBI Director Louis J. Freeh at a press conference in the Estonian Ministry of Finance, Tallinn, 3 July 2020.