threatening to hinder his getaway. i got in the car, cranking it over, i pumped the gas like one half pump, i m thinking [ muted ], you re smelling gas, you re drank the battery, it s flooded, hold it to the floor. it started right up, so i m gunning it, try to go warm it up, it s not going anywhere. i m, okay, i m about five minutes from the blast, you don t want to be apprehended in oklahoma city five minutes after. it s fairly remarkable to listen to him talking about how he finally gets things started. meanwhile, there s absolute carnage behind him. but then he pulls that old beater onto the highway. i pulled out, stopped at every stoplight in all direction, using my directions with normal speed.
ok. [ male announcer ] now all you need is a magic carriage. citi price rewind. start saving at citi.com/pricerewind. the westerly along the kansas/oklahoma border is crisp and clear when the sun rises on the morning of april 19th, 1995. 100 miles north of oklahoma city, timothy mcveigh wakes at dawn after sleeping soundly on the side of the highway in the cab of his rented ryder truck. now loaded with 7,000 pounds of
steel, you have to have a high-yield or high-powered explosive. the fertilizer itself is an explosive. the stuff that they steal from the quarry helps initiate that explosion. the nitromethane they get actually makes this worse. it can create the kind of destruction you see in oklahoma.
himself in. unlike mcveigh, nichols cooperates with authorities. he s not the john doe number 2 they re looking for, but he provides enough information to implicate mcveigh as the architect of the bombing plot. later in the day, back in perry, fbi agencies prepare to take mcveigh out of the noble county courthouse. it will be the first time the world gets a look at the oklahoma city bomber. i don t think anyone who was alive at that time in america will ever forget the sight of timothy mcveigh being led out of the courthouse in that orange jumpsuit. the thing that i think stuck with every single person who saw this one snippet of video
so that was another grandiose way of saying how important his actions are to those in the world, compared to everyone else s. his actions mark him a place in history. he matters. people have compared oklahoma city to pearl harbor, as far as the impact of a psyche on the american people, that it was a surprise, it was a shock to the nation and all that. one of the chief intentions of it was the same as dropping the bomb on hiroshima. and what was that? hit them hard, by surprise and heavily. you know, to say, listen. if you don t knock it off, there s more of this to come. [ male announcer ] you are a business pro. executor of efficiency. you can spot an amateur from a mile away. while going shoeless and metal-free in seconds. and you.rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle.and go. you can even take a full-size or above