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On April 19th 1995 at 09:00am, Timothy McVeigh, an American gulf-war veteran, parked a rental truck containing a homemade bomb outside the Alfred P Murrah building in Oklahoma City and lit the fuse. At 09:02am, McVeigh detonated the bomb. In a matter of seconds, the blast destroyed most of the nine-story concrete building, which included a daycare centre, leaving 168 people dead, and hundreds more injured. But the question on everyone’s mind was why? What motives could Timothy McVeigh have had to commit what was, at that time, the most devastating terrorist attack on American Soil.

As the black smoke cleared from over Oklahoma City, caused by a lethal explosion of a homemade bomb outside the Alfred P Murrah building, the true devastation of this blast was more clear to see. Hundreds of civilians lay bleeding and injured on the ground, 168 people were confirmed dead, 19 of them children, there were 342 buildings damaged or completely destroyed and the impact of the bomb left a 16-block radius of destruction, reducing most structures to rubble.

The surrounding area looked like a warzone, cars were incinerated, buildings on fire. Coming just after the World Trade Centre bombing in New York two years earlier, many Americans immediately assumed that the attack was the work of Middle Eastern Terrorists. Truly the darkest day in Oklahoma Cities history, one that turned an even darker shade when they found out it was one of their own.

Beneath the piles of concrete and rubble were clues. On April 20th, the rear axle of the Ryder truck which was carrying the homemade bomb was located and the vehicle identification number was traced to a body shop in Kansas. Employees at the shop helped the FBI quickly put together a composite drawing of the man who rented the van. Agents showed the drawing around town and local hotel employees supplied a name ; Tim McVeigh.

Astonishingly, McVeigh was already in jail. He’d been pulled over about 80 miles north of Oklahoma City for a missing licence plate on his getaway car, where it was swiftly discovered he had a concealed weapon and was arrested just 90 minutes after the bombing. From there, the evidence against Timothy McVeigh began adding up.

Agents found traces of the chemicals used in the explosion on McVeigh’s clothes and a business card on McVeigh which had written on it ‘TNT @ 5$ a stick, need more’. During interrogation, they quickly learned about McVeigh's extremist ideologies and his strong hatred of the federal government.

Once they discovered this was his motive, it was plain to see why Timothy McVeigh targeted the Alfred P Murrah building. It was full of US Government workers, fourteen federal agencies had offices there, and 98 of the victims on the day worked for the federal government. But where did this hate of McVeigh’s stem from? Watch the video to find out more!