Oklahoma City bombing: Archive Eyewitness News coverage from 1995

ByDomenick Candelieri WABC logo
Thursday, April 19, 2018
1995 Eyewitness News coverage on Oklahoma City bombing
Watch archive footage from WABC/Eyewitness News of the deadly Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, when terrorists detonated a truck bomb outside a federal building.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma (WABC) -- Exactly two years later after the Waco Siege on April 19, 1995, anti-government militant Timothy McVeigh and his co-conspirator Terry Nichols detonated a truck full of explosives outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

The blast left 168 people dead and hundreds more injured, making it the worst attack on American soil until 9/11. Among the dead were 19 young children, who were in the building's daycare center at the time of the blast. The Murrah Building housed several federal agencies, including one of the agencies that had launched the initial raid on the Branch Davidian compound.

Eyewitness News pulled video from its archives to show you our coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing the day after it happened. You can watch it in the video player above.

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