What were the motives for the Oklahoma City Bombing?

The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist attack that occurred in 1995 when Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols detonated a truck packed with explosives outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, leaving 168 people dead and hundreds more injured. Get the facts on HISTORY.com. read more

Two men got sucked in by the rhetoric about how evil government is. They figured they could strike out against it by blowing up the nearest large Federal building. read more

The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist attack that occurred in 1995 when Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols detonated a truck packed with explosives outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, leaving 168 people dead and hundreds more injured. read more

According to the prosecutors, McVeigh plotted the bombing in retaliation for the government's 1993 raid on the compound of the Branch Davidian. read more