On the morning of April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh parked a rental truck with explosives in
front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and at 9:02am, a massive explosion occurred
which sheared the entire north side of the building, killing 168 people.

The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was a United States Government office building located
in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The federal building was constructed in 1977 at a cost of $14.5
million, and was named for federal judge Alfred P. Murrah, an Oklahoma native. By the 1990s the
building contained regional offices for the Secret Service, the Drug Enforcement Agency (D.E.A.),
and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), and other agencies.

Following the investigation which resulted in the execution of Timothy McVeigh and the
sentence of life without parole for Terry Nichols, the surviving structure was demolished
with explosives on May 23, 1995. The entire 3.3 acre site subsequently became home to the
Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum, a place to honor the victims, survivors and
rescue workers, and to learn the impact of violence.