Margaret Roberts Exposes the True Story of the Oklahoma City Bombing and the Ongoing Cover-Up

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What was the Oklahoma City bombing and how did it unfold?

Tucker Carlson 0:00
So you're, I would say, one of the living experts on the Oklahoma City bombing, which to some of us seems like just the other day, but it was 30 years ago this year. So for those not steeped in the details of the story, if you wouldn't mind giving us the overview, what was the Oklahoma City bombing?
Margaret Roberts 0:16
Sure. The Oklahoma City bombing was... was and is America's deadliest domestic terror attack. It happened on a Wednesday morning in 1995, an April morning, out of nowhere, nine in the morning at the federal building, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, nine stories tall. a devastating explosion hit the building and killed 168 people who were working or visiting the building that morning. The front of the building looked like ice cream that had been scooped out. It was just a scene of unbelievable destruction and death and blood and confusion. And the entire nation was left just aghast that this could have happened in America's heartland.
Tucker Carlson 1:48
It was shocking, and there was confusion. I remember that morning well in April, and people immediately went on CNN to say that Muslims had done it. That was the first understanding was this was some kind of Islamic terror attack. And then we were told that, no, it was really one guy with an accomplice who wasn't there. The guy was called Timothy McVeigh. He had a rider truck full of ammonium nitrate fertilizer mixed with diesel fuel, I think.
Unknown 2:21
Yes.
Tucker Carlson 2:22
And that's when most of us learned that that mixture could produce an explosion like this. Now, that's, I think, well-known, but that's when most of us learned it. And he was a white supremacist. He was mad at the government. He was mad about Waco and Ruby Ridge. And he's a former, he was a veteran. But he was part of a network of white supremacists. And then we spent the next year or two hearing about this. Bill Clinton often referred to this. And then he was executed. And that was kind of the end of the story. So that's the layman's understanding of Oklahoma City.
Margaret Roberts 3:00
Yes, and it was quite an amazing couple of days. In lightning fast speed, the FBI found Timothy McVeigh tracing the axle from the Ryder truck to a motel 275 miles north in Kansas, where McVeigh had checked in to the motel using his own name. And pretty soon, just within a matter of a couple of days, the FBI found its way to Perry, Oklahoma, about 75 miles north of Oklahoma City, where McVeigh had been arrested on traffic charges, driving his Mercury car, the getaway car, without a license plate. And the officer, the arresting officer, found that he was carrying a concealed weapon. McVeigh was very polite the entire time. There was no thought that McVeigh was connected to the bombing. The highway patrolman took him into the Perry jail and he sat there.
Margaret Roberts 4:26
He was on his way to a bond hearing and to be released when the FBI, through this incredible speed of their investigation, said, found him in Perry, Oklahoma on Friday afternoon for that now famous perp walk out the door without a vest in his orange jumpsuit and his Thousand Mile Stare and the gathered crowd around chanting Baby Killer, that's what we remember of our first sight of Timothy McVeigh, the suspected bomber.
Tucker Carlson 5:11
Boy, the FBI is good. I mean, they got him within days on the basis of a truck axle. How did they say they did
Margaret Roberts 5:17
that? They tracked the VIN number on the truck axle to Ryder. in Florida, and Ryder had a record of that truck being rented out of Junction City, Kansas. And so they went to the rental agency, and sure enough, put two and two together. The identification was made from first the rental truck agency where McVeigh had rented the truck. They remembered him and they made a composite sketch of the two men, not one, but two men who had been present for the rental of the truck. And with the sketches, the FBI spanned out in Junction City and found that motel where McVeigh had registered under his own name.
Tucker Carlson 6:25
What do you mean two men? Who was the other man?
Margaret Roberts 6:28
The other man, who eventually would emerge as the mystery man of the Oklahoma City bombing, was never identified. But the staff at Elliott's Body Shop, where they rented the Ryder truck two days before the bombing on a Monday, they all said there was a second man there, and he was described as...

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