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Why I Bombed Oklahoma

Letter

By: Timothy McVeigh

Date: May 6, 2001

Source: The Observer (London).

About the Author: Timothy McVeigh was the perpetrator of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal office building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on April 19, 1995.

INTRODUCTION

After Timothy McVeigh was convicted of the bombing and while he awaited execution in Terre Haute, Indiana, he wrote the following letter, justifying his act of political terrorism.

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SIGNIFICANCE

Until September 11, 2001, the largest terrorist attack on U.S....