Introduction

On April 19, 1995, an ex-army soldier named Timothy McVay parked a rider truck in front of the Alfred P. Murra Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. A powerful bomb was inside the vehicle; it ignited one time and then another. The blast incinerated dozens of cars, and damaged or destroyed more than 300 nearby buildings. 25 years after the deadly bombing that took the lives of 168 people, now retired Special Agent Barry Black provides us with his first-hand experience investigating the case.