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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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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.
Feb 4, 1996 · The task force planning a memorial of the April 19 Murrah Building bombing will hold its last community meeting Tuesday in downtown Oklahoma City. The task force was formed last summer by Oklahoma City Mayor Ron Norick.
Oct 1, 1999 · Three months after the bombing Mayor Norick convened the first organizational meeting of the Murrah Federal Building Task Force at the Civic Center. 2 Ultimately, the task force would evolve into the Oklahoma City Memorial Foundation and later into the Oklahoma City National Memorial in partnership with the National Park Service.
- Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Shortly after 9:00 a.m. on April 19, 1995, a Ryder rental truck exploded with terrifying force in front of the nine-story Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City.
- Timothy McVeigh. A massive hunt for the bombing suspects ensued, and on April 21 an eyewitness description led authorities to charge Timothy McVeigh, a former U.S. Army soldier, in the case.
- Domestic Terrorists Behind the Oklahoma City Bombing. While still in his teens, McVeigh, who was raised in western New York, acquired a penchant for guns and began honing survivalist skills he believed would be necessary in the event of a Cold War showdown with the Soviet Union.
- McVeigh and Nichols Sentenced. On June 2, 1997, McVeigh was convicted on all 11 counts against him, and on August 14 the death penalty was formally imposed.
In the aftermath of the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Mayor Ron Norick appointed a 350-member Memorial Task Force charged with developing an appropriate memorial to honor those touched by the event.
Apr 19, 2017 · A truck filled with explosives detonated at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, killing 168 people, including 19 children. At first, investigators believed it to be the work of Middle East terrorists, as White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta describes below.
The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, on April 19, 1995, the second anniversary of the end to the Waco siege. The bombing remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.
