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The
Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was a
United States Federal Government complex located at 200 N.W. 5th Street in downtown
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The Murrah building was the target of the
Oklahoma City bombing on
April 19 1995.
The federal building was designed by architect Wendell Locke of Locke, Wright and Associates, and constructed using
reinforced concrete in
1977 at a cost of $14.5 million. The building was named for federal judge
Alfred P. Murrah, an
Oklahoma native and opened on
March 2,
1977.
By the
1990s, the building contained regional offices for the
Social Security Administration,
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). The building also contained recruiting offices for both the
Army and the
Marine Corps. It housed approximately 550 employees.
The remains of the building were imploded a month after the attack, and the
Oklahoma City National Memorial was built on the site. The Federal government began construction of a new building to replace the Murrah Building in late 2000. This new building was placed just to the north of where the Murrah Building had been located, and incorporated a number of security measures implemented after the bombing of the Murrah Building.
Bombing
At 9:02 A.M. on
April 19,
1995, a Ryder rental truck bomb containing approximately 5,000 pounds (2,300 kg) of
ammonium nitrate fertilizer,
nitromethane, and
diesel fuel was detonated in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building destroying the building and causing severe damage to several other buildings located nearby. The focused damage produced by the bomb had the characteristics of either a
shaped charge or EFP (
explosively formed penetrator) device. As a result 168 people were killed and over 800 others were injured. It was the largest
terrorist attack on American soil in history before the
September 11 attacks.
Timothy McVeigh would later be found guilty of the attack and sentenced to death.
Demolition
Rescue and recovery efforts were concluded at 11:50 p.m. on
May 4, with the bodies of all but three victims recovered. The final three bodies, those of two credit union employees and a customer, were recovered. For several days after the building's demolition, trucks hauled 800 tons of debris a day away from the site. Some of the debris was used as
evidence in the conspirators' trials, incorporated into parts of memorials, donated to local schools, and sold to raise funds for relief efforts.
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