Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum

This is the national memorial for the 168 people who were murdered in the bombing April 19, 1995.

This is a very well done museum. It starts off setting the scene of a normal spring day in Oklahoma City.

There was a Water Board meeting across the street at the time of the bombing.

The meeting was audiotaped, and the museum played the recording. The meeting started at 9:00, and the bomb went of at 9:02. The sound was obviously picked up on the audio. Chilling.

These are scenes of some of the destruction. These are the actual items that were recovered during the cleanup.

This trim on the church across the street was blown off.

Scenes from TV on that day.

Before the bombing, Daina Bradley is at the Social Security office in the building to pick up a social security card a her new son. After the blast, rescuers find her trapped, her right leg pinned under a fallen concrete beam. After two hours they determine it is impossible to move the beam. To save her life they must amputate her lower leg. After a delay due to a second bomb scare, orthopedic surgeon Andy Sullivan begins the procedure but all his emergency tools fail. He improvises and completes a very difficult through-the-knee amputation with his pocket knife, displayed here.

The aftermath of the Murrah Federal Building

The rental truck license plate.

McVeigh’s court appearance.

One room was a memorial to each of the victims. There was a picture of each victim, with an item that was special for each person.

Overlooking the outdoor symbolic memorial with downtown Oklahoma City in the background.

One end of the reflecting pool, depicting the minute before the bombing.

The wall depicting the minute after the bombing.

Here, one seat for each of the 168 victims. They are arranged in 9 rows, one row for each floor of the Murrah Building, and placed approximately where the victims were located on their floor.