On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh parked a Ryder truck stuffed with explosives in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. At 9:02 am, the bomb exploded, killing 168 people and injuring more than 680 others. The blast destroyed one-third of the federal building and destroyed or damaged 324 other structures. Ninety minutes after the explosion, McVeigh was stopped for driving without a license plate and arrested for illegal weapons possession. McVeigh was executed by lethal injection on June 11, 2001.
The day after the OKC bombing, a photo made headlines in newspapers across the world that captured the tragedy of that day. The photo was OKC Firefighter Chris Fields carrying, 1-year old Baylee Almon, who had been killed in the blast.
25 years later, Aren Almon, Baylee’s mom, takes you inside the day that she’ll never forget. What’s it really like to lose a child in the OKC Bombing?
Photo credit: Aren Almon