Speaker 1: The Oklahoma City bombing seemed to come out of nowhere,
Speaker 1: and then America found out who did it. Timothy McVeigh.
Speaker 1: He had lost everything and laid the blame on the
Speaker 1: federal government. He decides to avenge the death of water
Speaker 1: to him ordinary citizens. The vastness of the crime scene
Speaker 1: was unprecedented. I covered mcveigh's trial back in nineteen ninety seven,
Speaker 1: and like much of the news media, I focused on
Speaker 1: the crime. What I didn't see then was that this
Speaker 1: story transcended crime, even terrorism, and it told us something
Speaker 1: about our politics. Back then, we talked a lot about
Speaker 1: how the bombing happened. What we didn't talk about as
Speaker 1: much was why. Mcvay's politics were almost an afterthought, But
Speaker 1: the why is important. McVeigh himself said that the bombing
Speaker 1: was part of his duty as an American patriot, and
Speaker 1: all of that is not ancient history. I think we
Speaker 1: have a preach of the capital. Preach of the capital.
Speaker 1: January sixth, twenty twenty one, another day of extremist violence
Speaker 1: in America. What struck me is that the Oklahoma City
Speaker 1: bombing and January sixth were both born out of the
Speaker 1: same motives. The obsession with gun rights, the perceived approval
Speaker 1: of the founding fathers, the belief in the value and
Speaker 1: legitimacy of violence. To understand the present, I've returned to
Speaker 1: the Oklahoma City bombing to uncover the full truth about
Speaker 1: what happened. And once you hear what I've discovered, you'll
Speaker 1: see that the motivations for right wing violence that we're
Speaker 1: seeing today actually started decade earlier. I'm Jeffrey Tuban from
Speaker 1: USG Audio, Smail Corp. And Western Sound comes a new
Speaker 1: series diving into a case of domestic terrorism from the
Speaker 1: past that's really a warning about the future. To listen
Speaker 1: to Homegrown OKC, search for Homegrown OKC on your favorite
Speaker 1: podcast app that's homegrown one word followed by the letters OKC.