demolitions and using explosives from my military experience. i used the ammonium nitrate and adding nitromethane. which is a chemical fuel. with high explosives you ve got high velocity. to shatter concrete and 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 querrey helps initiate that explosio explosion. the nitromethane they get makes this worse and can create the kind of destruction you see in oklahoma. [ male announcer ] humana and walmart have teamed up to bring you a low-priced medicare prescription drug plan. with the lowest national plan premium.
planning and the execution and the motivations behind his horrific attack. what turned a decorated army veteran into a mass murderer. if there is any answer to that question, it is in these tapes. with these tapes, i feel very free in talking because i know you re using the information appropriately. here, i m just letting it all come out. oklahoma city bomber timothy mcveigh never confessed his crimes to the fbi, the courts or the media. except for a single series of interviews that have never been heard publicly until now. death and loss are an integral part of life everywhere, these people in oklahoma that lost loved ones, i m sorry, but you know what? we have to accept it and move on. mcveigh s voice will lay out
interview is approaching the core of timothy mcveigh s grisly narrative. it s april 18th, 1995, just 24 hours before the tragedy in oklahoma city, and mcveigh is in possession of the rented 20-foot ryder truck. the horrific plan is in motion, but co-conspirator terry nichols is trying to back out, yet again. he told mcveigh, i m out, i don t want to be involved with this. mcveigh got him on the phone and yelled and screamed at him, and told him you re in this, you are going to help me put this bomb together. mcveigh convinces nichols to stick with him, to see the mission through. mcveigh is in charge. mcveigh becomes the alpha male in this small conspiracy to get even with the federal government. from a military perspective, to get a message across, you need to hurt them where they hurt the most.
50,000 people in the oklahoma city area suffering symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. i looked at all the photographs from the crime scene. i looked at all the photographs from the coroner s office. it was overwhelming. death and loss are integral part of life everywhere, and accidents like plane crashes where you lose 100, 200 people, all the examples i give you right now are unexpected losses. we have to accept it and move on. he had grown into this being that lacked all sensitivity. he was very hostile to the victims, really almost detaching himself from their hurt altogether. i had no hesitation to look at them and listen to their story, but i d like to say to them, i ve heard your stories many times before. the specific details may be unique, but the truth is you re
it was a clash between federal law enforcement might and withdrawn people who were fiercely protective of their community. me bond in this community is that they re fellow gun owners and believes in gun rights and fellow survivalists, and freedom lovers. when do you draw the line and say enough is enough? somebody has to send a message to say, you can t go any further. and mcveigh got in his little junk car and drove to waco, texas, to find out what was going on. michelle roush, a college newspaper reporter at the time, was at the branch davidian compound outside waco to investigate the story. it wasn t until one year after the oklahoma city bombing that she realized the man she interviewed on the hood of his