One of Ours: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing

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Abandoned by his mother as a child, betrayed by the army, enraged at the government’s tactics at Waco, Timothy McVeigh undertook to avenge what the far right sees as the undoing of The usa. Even as the militias and fanatics ranted, McVeigh on my own made up our minds to act. He believed he used to be starting a revolution, but what he did used to be galvanize a nation against the very hatred he espoused. On April 19, 1995, terrorism struck the heartland of The usa: A cataclysmic explosion destroyed the Oklahoma City federal building, took the lives of 168 people, and injured more than 500 others. It used to be not the work of a secret foreign cabal or a maniacal suicide bomber. As a substitute, death drove a rented truck, and in the back of the wheel used to be a young white American male with the barest of knowledge at his fingertips–a driver’s license to rent a van and a recipe for mixing farm fertilizer and fuel oil to make a bomb. Timothy McVeigh–son of the working class, an army hero, the kid next door–used to be about to turn out to be the worst mass-murderer in American history. Richard Serrano, a Los Angeles Times reporter, arrived in Oklahoma City with the fire engines still racing to the blast web page, and he has never left the story. On the basis of hundreds of interviews, including an in-depth exclusive with McVeigh himself, Serrano takes us along on that wild ride crisscrossing The usa, as the bomb components are collected and a seemingly normal young man hardens his get to the bottom of to save the country he loves at the expense of the government he hates.
Los Angeles Times reporter Richard Serrano, who covered the story of the Oklahoma City bombing from the day it happened through the trial and conviction of Timothy McVeigh, examines McVeigh’s background in extremist anti-government politics and retraces the steps that led to the deaths of 168 people and injuries to hundreds more.

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