Editorial: 25 years past the Oklahoma City bombing: How Americans respond to crisis
by The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune
Apr 17, 2020
3 minutes
Twenty-five years ago Sunday, on April 19, 1995, a vengeful 26-year-old named Timothy McVeigh used his cigarette lighter to ignite a fuse. Then he walked away from the scene of his imminent crime. He had scouted potential targets in five states before deciding that this site's open surroundings would give news cameras clean angles to photograph his handiwork.
McVeigh's detonation disrupted this nation's holiday from history after the collapse of the long-threatening Soviet Union. With his assault on the United States government - an Oklahoma bomb blast that registered 3.0 on seismologists' Richter scale
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