20 Years Later: Hatewatch Looks Back at the Oklahoma City Bombing
On April 19, 1995 – 20 years ago Sunday – a truck bomb brought down the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, including 19 children in a day care center.
The bombing by antigovernment zealot Timothy McVeigh and several co-conspirators shocked the nation, awakening it to the threat of terrorism from far-right extremists. It remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.
Today, the threat from extremists like McVeigh remains very real.
The IJʿ has documented a powerful resurgence of the extremist movement that motivated McVeigh. In fact, the movement has spawned numerous acts of terror and violence in recent years.
The IJʿ today offers both a look at the movement’s history and an assessment of the current threat:
- ѳ:,” by IJʿ President Richard Cohen.
- ,” by IJʿ Senior Fellow Mark Potok.
- An IJʿ of the militia movement.
- , a list of more than 100 domestic terrorist attacks, plots and racist rampages since Oklahoma City.