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Timothy McVeigh, a former member of the US Army, was convicted of 15 counts of murder and one count of conspiracy in connection with his involvement in the 1995 terrorist bombing of Oklahoma City’s Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. On April 19, 1995, just after 9 a.m., a large truck bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. More than 100 people died instantly, and additional victims were buried under rubble when the north side of the nine-story structure collapsed as a result of the explosion. Emergency services from around the country flocked to Oklahoma City. 168 people died when the rescue was finally completed two weeks later, including 19 young children who were in the building’s daycare center at the time of the bombing. Timothy McVeigh What Happened to Timothy McVeigh? Six years after carrying out the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil, Timothy McVeigh was hanged on July 11, 2001. He was silent and defiant throughout the execution. According to jail warden Harley Lappin, McVeigh, 33, was pronounced dead at 7:14 a.m. local time in Terre Haute, Indiana. He was staring at the ceiling the whole time. As his final act, McVeigh released a handwritten version of the 1875 poem Invictus instead of making a statement. Bush spoke a few words in Washington to express his grief over McVeigh’s passing. “The victims of the Oklahoma City bombing received justice, not retribution,” he declared, adding that a young man had achieved the end he had set for himself six years earlier. He Bombed Oklahoma City Amid His Dislike For The US Federal Government Tim McVeigh chose the second anniversary of the Waco, Texas, Branch Davidian compound fire that ended the siege. He hated the US federal government at the time of his attack and did not like the way it handled the Ruby Ridge incident in 1992 and the Waco siege in 1993. He always referred to and made allusions to the interests of The Turner Diaries on guns and expressed admiration for it. Pages 61 and 62 of The Turner Diaries were copied and found in McVeigh’s car. These pages featured a fictional mortar attack on the US Capitol building in Washington, DC In a 1,200-word article from the federal maximum-security prison in Florence, Colorado, McVeigh argued that the terrorist attacks are “morally analogous” to American military actions against Iraq and other foreign countries. The essay is dated March 1998. The handwritten essay was submitted and published by the alternative national news outlet Media Bypass. It was made public by the Associated Press on May 29, 1998. McVeigh died by lethal injection Where is Timothy McVeigh’s Family? His upbringing in the small village of Pendleton, New York, far from the pastoral life that would be the bomber’s ideal, is where his family lives. His father worked at the local Harrison Radiator plant while his mother worked at a travel agency. The two sisters and McVeigh were told by their parents that they could choose who they wanted to be with after their divorce. Tim did not like his mother because of the breakup and chose to stay with his father because he could no longer be with his mother due to his father’s long hours at the plant. Additionally, he said Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck, the writers of the recently released book American Terrorist: “I can’t attribute who or what I am to my parents’ absence from family life, but I can say very little what i have memories of interacting with them.” Timothy McVeigh Bio Timothy James McVeigh, an American domestic terrorist who lived from April 23, 1968, to June 11, 2001, carried out the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people , including 19 children, more than 680 were injured, and one-third of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was destroyed. Prior to the September 11 attacks, the bombing was the deadliest act of terrorism to have occurred in the US. It was continues to be the deadliest domestic terrorist incident in American history.A veteran of the Gulf War, McVeigh wanted revenge on the federal government for the 1992 Ruby Ridge event, the 1993 Waco siege that resulted in the deaths of 82 people, many of them children, as well as American foreign policy. He described the bombing as a rational strategy against what he saw as a dictatorial government trying to to instigate a revolution against federal authority. He was arrested soon after the attack and charged with using a weapon of mass destruction as well as 160 other state and federal crimes. In 1997, he was found guilty on all counts and given the death penalty. Timothy James McVeigh Born April 23, 1968 Lockport, New York, US Died June 11, 2001 (age 33) Terre Haute, Indiana, US Cause of death Execution by lethal injection Other names Tim TuttleDaryl BridgesRobert Kling Job Security guard Criminal status Executed on June 11, 2001, McVeigh was executed by lethal injection at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. His execution, which took place more than six years after the crime, was completed in less time than is usually required for death row convicts. Early life McVeigh was born on April 23, 1968, in Lockport, New York. He was the only son and the second of three children born to his Irish American parents, Mildred “Mickey” Noreen (née Hill) and William McVeigh. McVeigh is named after Timothy McVeigh, the IRA bomber responsible for the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. Edward McVeigh immigrated to the United States from Ireland in 1866 and eventually made his home in Niagara County. McVeigh was named for him. McVeigh’s mother and father divorced when he was ten, and his father took him in and raised him in Pendleton, New York. McVeigh claims that he was the object of bullying during his time at school, and sought refuge in a fantasy world where he fantasized about exacting revenge against his tormentors. Towards the end of his life, he expressed the opinion that the government of the United States was the worst form of oppression. Some people who knew McVeigh remember him as a sociable and playful child who became reserved as a teenager, while most who knew him remember him as extremely reserved and shy. It was reported that he only had one girlfriend when he was a teenager; he later told reporters that he did not know how to impress women. He said he only had one girlfriend when he was a teenager. McVeigh developed an interest in computers during his time as a high school student, and used his Commodore 64 to break into government computer systems while using the alias “The Wanderer,” borrowed from a song by Dion (DiMucci). In his final year at Starpoint Central High School, despite having very average grades up until the time of his graduation in 1986, he was recognized as the school’s “most promising computer programmer”. His grandfather first became interested in guns. McVeigh often bragged to others about his desire to open his own gun store, and he often brought a weapon to school in an effort to gain the admiration of his peers. After high school, he began reading periodicals such as Soldier of Fortune, which sparked his interest in gun rights issues as well as the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. Because of this, he developed a strong passion for these subjects. He registered for several classes at Bryant & Stratton College before withdrawing his enrollment. After dropping out of college, McVeigh found work as an armored car guard, where his fellow employees observed that he had an unhealthy preoccupation with guns. One of McVeigh’s co-workers recounted an incident in which the defendant came to work “dressed like Pancho Villa” because he wore bandoliers. Military career McVeigh enlisted in the United States Army in May 1988, when he was 20 years old. He attended Basic Training and Advanced Individual Training at the United States Army Infantry School, located at Fort Benning, Georgia. During his military tenure, McVeigh spent a large amount of his downtime studying subjects such as firearms, sniper techniques, and explosives. McVeigh was disciplined by the military for purchasing a “White Power” T-shirt at a Ku Klux Klan event where the Klan was protesting black troops wearing “Black Power” T-shirts around of a military post. The demonstration was held in response to black servicemen wearing “Black Power” T-shirts (mainly Army). McVeigh received a promotion to the rank of sergeant as a result of his performance as a top-scoring gunner with the 25mm cannon of the Bradley Fighting Vehicles used by the 1st Infantry Division. After receiving the promotion, McVeigh developed a bad reputation for treating black personnel unfairly by giving them unattractive jobs and using racial slurs. Prior to his deployment for Operation Desert Storm, he was stationed at Fort Riley, located in Kansas. In an interview that took place shortly before McVeigh was killed, he claimed that on his first day in combat, he hit an Iraqi tank from more than 500 yards, and after that, the Iraqis surrendered. Additionally, he used cannon fire to decapitate an Iraqi soldier while he was 1,100 yards away. He then said he was amazed to see the carnage on the road as he was leaving Kuwait City after United States troops defeated the Iraqi Army. McVeigh was honored for his service with several medals and ribbons, including the Bronze Star Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Southwest Asia Service Medal, the Army Service Ribbon, and the Kuwait Liberation Medal. McVeigh has ambitions to serve in the Special Forces of the United States Army (SF). After serving in the Gulf War, he enrolled in the selection program upon his return home, however, he failed the assessment and selection process for Special Forces on the second day of the 21-day program. [Clarification needed] McVeigh decided to leave the Army and was honorably discharged in 1991.