AP Was There: A truck bomb rips through a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — EDITORS NOTE: On April 19, 1995, a former U.S. Army soldier parked a rented Ryder truck loaded with a powerful bomb made of fertilizer and fuel oil outside a federal office building in Oklahoma City. The blast at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building killed 168 people, including 19 children, and injured more than 500 others in what remains the deadliest homegrown attack on American soil.

An unidentified man, his face covered with blood, looks at the bombed Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. (AP Photo/David Longstreath, File)

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