The FBI released an
interview with an FBI special agent who was on the scene of the Oklahoma City
bombing 25 years ago.
Steve Lewis:
On the morning of April 19, 1995, an ex-Army solider named Timothy McVeigh
parked a Ryder truck in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in
downtown Oklahoma City.
A powerful bomb was
inside the vehicle. It was made out of a deadly cocktail of fertilizer, racecar
fuel, and other chemicals. McVeigh got out of the truck, locked the door, and
headed toward his getaway car. He ignited one timed fuse and then another.
At precisely 9:02
a.m., the bomb exploded.
Within moments, the
surrounding area looked like a war zone. A third of the Murrah Building had
been reduced to rubble. The blast incinerated dozens of cars and damaged or
destroyed more than 300 nearby buildings.
Just outside the city
limits, FBI Special Agent Barry Black was sitting in his car tracking a
fugitive, when he heard the explosion. Black switched on his radio and
immediately heard fellow agents on the other end. Speculations of a gas main
break or maybe a plane crash.
Switching channels,
Black reported what he was hearing and seeing to his supervisor. Not long after
that call to his boss, Black would be re-directed from his fugitive case to the
site of the explosion.
Twenty-five years
after the deadly bombing that took the lives of 168 people, now-retired Special
Agent Barry Black provides us with his firsthand experience investigating the
Oklahoma City case, known as OKBOMB, in this episode of Inside the FBI.
You’ll hear the challenges he faced during the investigation and his
perspective on how such a tragic event helped shape the FBI’s approach to
investigating domestic terrorism today.
I’m Steve Lewis, and
this is Inside the FBI.
Late that tragic April
morning, Black linked up with fellow investigators and first responders at the
Murrah Building to figure out what happened and assess the damage.
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