Oklahoma City bombing
1995 federal attack
The Oklahoma City bombing was a 1995 domestic terrorist attack in which a truck bomb destroyed the Alfred P.
Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people including 19 children in a daycare center.
Timothy McVeigh, motivated by anti-government ideology, was executed for the crime.
It remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.
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