200 Northwest 5th Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, December 1995

The most lethal act of terrorism in U.S. history occurred here on April 19, 1995. The nine-story Alfred
Murrah Federal Building housed seventeen government agencies and a day-care center. At 9:02 A.M., a
truck containing more than two tons of fertilizer and fuel oil exploded next to the building, killing 168
people, 15 of them small children. At least 600 others were injured in the blast.

The FBI arrested Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols for the bombing. McVeigh, a former Army
sergeant, and Nichols, a former member of a paramilitary group know as the Michigan Militia, had
spoken about their desire to seek revenge for the attack by the United States Government on the Branch
Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, which had occurred two years earlier. Both men pleaded not guilty.