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- In Mid-1995, just months after the Oklahoma City bombing, the all-volunteer Oklahoma City Murrah Federal Building Memorial Task Force was created to begin thinking about the most appropriate ways in which to memorialize the events that occurred on April 19, 1995.
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The Memorial’s Mission Statement was created by a 350-member task force that was brought together by an unspeakable act of terrorism. On April 19, 1995, one hundred and sixty-eight individuals were killed in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City.
- Create & Build
In Mid-1995, just months after the Oklahoma City bombing,...
- Create & Build
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- Guidance: Priorities
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Few events in the past quarter-century have rocked Americans’ perception of themselves and their institutions and brought together the people of our nation with greater intensity than the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. The resulting deaths of 168 people, some of whom were children, immedi...
First and foremost, the Memorial shall honor and respect the work of the Families and Survivors Liaison Subcommittee and the Memorial Ideas Input Subcommittee, and shall reflect the priorities identified by the subcommittees in their reports. Second, the Memorial shall comply with two resolutions passed by the Memorial Advisory Committee. These res...
After eight months of conducting public surveys, community meetings and small group discussions to gather ideas about what the Memorial should evoke, Task Force members found that the hopes of the general public mirrored almost identically those outlined by the Families/Survivors Liaison Subcommittee. The result is a description of what visitors to...
Apr 19, 1995 · Unsolicited memorial ideas poured into Oklahoma City within days of the bombing, and by July 1995 the Oklahoma City Murrah Federal Building Memorial Task Force was formed, made up of ten committees and an advisory committee of 160 people.
Months after the attack, Mayor Ron Norick appointed a task force to look into the creation of a permanent memorial where the Murrah building once stood. The Task Force called for 'a symbolic outdoor memorial', a Memorial Museum, and for the creation of the Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism.
In Mid-1995, just months after the Oklahoma City bombing, the all-volunteer Oklahoma City Murrah Federal Building Memorial Task Force was created to begin thinking about the most appropriate ways in which to memorialize the events that occurred on April 19, 1995.
Apr 19, 1996 · Mindful of the far-reaching impact of the bombing and aware of the historic nature of the event, Oklahoma City Mayor Ron Norick appointed a 350-member volunteer task force charged with developing an appropriate memorial.
Dec 1, 2015 · The struggle to define what it meant to be a “survivor” formed a central question for the task force that became the Oklahoma City Memorial and Museum Foundation, the organization which operates the site.
