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Just after 9 a.m., a massive truck bomb explodes outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The blast collapsed the north face of the nine-story building, instantly killing more than 100 people and trapping dozens more in the rubble.
Just after 9 a.m., a massive truck bomb explodes outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The blast collapsed the north face of the nine-story building, instantly killing more than 100 people and trapping dozens more in the rubble.
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I remember when this happened, the type of fertilizer used to make the bomb was Ammonia Nitrate, a high nitrogen packed fertilizer that is volital on it's own Lt Col Charlie Brown , they changed it's chemical make up shortly after this explosion, to make it harder to create bombs again.
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My mom worked six blocks from the Murrah building, and the blast shook their building and knocked off the brick facade on that side of the building.
There is more to that than has been officially told, because, had that bomb actually been powerful enough to destroy the front of the Murrah building, it would have leveled half of downtown OKC.
There is more to that than has been officially told, because, had that bomb actually been powerful enough to destroy the front of the Murrah building, it would have leveled half of downtown OKC.
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MAJ Ron Peery
Planned or unplanned, the blast was contained within the confines of the Murrah building and the buildings adjacent to the north of the federal building. One report I read stated that the damage to the Murrah Building was due to having been hit by two shocks from the explosion. First, the direct shock wave from the van parked in front of the building damaged and severely weakened the structure. Then the reflected shock wave from the Journal Record building a millisecond later finished the destruction. If memory serves, the Journal Record building across the street from the Murrah building was a boxy 5 story structure, and the flat, featureless south wall made an efficient reflective surface. Just to the southwest of the Journal Record building was the Water Resources Board building, which was collapsed by the blast.
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