Oklahoma City bombing: 20 years later, key questions remain unanswered
Twenty years ago, on 19 April 1995, a disaffected veteran named Timothy McVeigh drove a Ryder truck stuffed with explosives into downtown Oklahoma City and destroyed a federal office building, killing 168 people, including 19 children, and maiming hundreds of others. That much we know.
We also know that, within 90 minutes of the bombing, McVeigh was pulled over near the Kansas border and arrested, alone, at the wheel of a glaringly improbable getaway car, an ancient, spluttering rust bucket of a Mercury sedan with no licence plates which made him a sitting duck for any passing highway patrolman.
How could such a callous, carefully planned attack have come to such an incongruously slapdash end? After a vast investigation headed by the FBI, three trials mounted against McVeigh and his co-conspirator, Terry Nichols, and an avalanche of court documents, there is still no definitive answer to that question.
Perhaps the most striking thing about the Oklahoma City bombing by far the most destructive act perpetrated by a home-grown assailant against fellow Americans is not how much weve learned over the past 20 years but rather how much we still do not know.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/13/oklahoma-city-bombing-20-years-later-key-questions-remain-unanswered
historylovr
(1,557 posts)These questions will probably never be answered though. We must, as always, look forward. And it does not serve us well in the long run.
bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)MisterP
(23,730 posts)rgbecker
(4,834 posts)It seems if the police can't just shoot it down on the street, it's not worth spending too much time investigating.