(16 Apr 2025)
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Oklahoma City – 5 March 2025
1. Pan of history books and magazines that showcases destruction and iconic photo of firefighter holding injured infant during bombing
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Fields, Retired Oklahoma City Firefighter:
“The day of course for everybody, it’s one of those, it’s just one of those moments in history where I think everybody remembers where they were and what they were doing.”
3. Wide of memorial
4. Close of 9:01 time stamp on memorial that refers to the last moment of peace before the bombing
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Fields, Retired Oklahoma City Firefighter:
“That photo was representing all the first responders, no matter what agency or what field of first responder they were involved with. And that Bailey represented the innocence that was lost, whether it be through fatalities or injuries or some of the mental scars that people still carry today.”
6. Various of memorial with Chris Fields looking from afar
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Fields, Retired Oklahoma City Firefighter:
“I’m moved every time I come down here. Some days it’s… I don’t come down here a whole lot, let me say that you know but when I do some friends are in town they want to come down I’ll bring them down. Some days it’s very, very emotional and I’m right back at April 19th 1995 and some days I can come down here and enjoy the moment and enjoy what they’ve done, you know, and appreciate what they have done with this area.”
8. Medium of chairs that represent those killed in the bombing
9. Various of museum entrance
10. Wide of memorial
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Kari Watkins, Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum:
“This institution, I think, tells the brutality of the attack and the senselessness of it, but it also tells about the greatness of the people who came together.”
12. Dolly shot of memorial chairs that represent those killed in the bombing
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Kari Watkins, Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum:
“We have to come to the sacred ground to find common ground. I mean, we have to remind ourselves that people can still divide us if we let them, but it’s up to us to, and we talk about this, to go be the light. I mean it’s part of our 30th anniversary mission is a day of darkness, years of light. We have to go be light, all of us. We have carry the torch and be the light and sit at the table and be willing to meet people in the middle and not be divisive and go into our corners. In every action we have and everything we do figuring out how to bring people together.”
++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
Thirty years after a truck bomb detonated outside a federal building in America’s heartland, killing 168 people in the deadliest homegrown attack on U.S. soil, deep scars remain.
From a mother who lost her first-born baby, a son who never got to know his father, and a young man so badly injured that he still struggles to breathe, three decades have not healed the wounds from the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995.
The bombers were two former U.S. Army buddies, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, who shared a deep-seated hatred of the federal government fueled by the bloody raid on the Branch Davidian religious sect near Waco, Texas, and a standoff in the mountains of Ruby Ridge, Idaho, that killed a 14-year-old boy, his mother and a federal agent.
And while the bombing awakened the nation to the dangers of extremist ideologies, many who suffered directly in the attack still fear anti-government rhetoric in modern-day politics could also lead to violence.
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