Oklahoma City Bombing Book Report

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The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing that took place outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19th, 1995. The people responsible of this were Timothy Mcveigh and Terry Nichols, both served in the military and then bonded over their mutual anti-government sentiments. Mcveigh’s anti-government ideas started back in high school when he read the Turner Diaries by William Pierce who was the leader of one of America’s most prominent neo-Nazi organizations, perhaps this is where they got the idea since in the Turner Diaries they describe something really similar to what they did, the book outlines a fictional aryan revolution against the federal government in which it says “We will then drive into the FBI

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