It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

5215.802 - 5237.502 Steven Monticelli

McVeigh had spent years selling copies of the Turner Diaries at gun shows. He retaliated against what he saw as his government oppressors by blowing up the Alfred Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on the second anniversary of the Waco Configuration. He used a truck bomb, facing his attack, in part on the fictitious bombings of the FBI headquarters in William Pierce's novel.